Author: Haobin Liang
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Sound and Aural week6 reflection
After sharing the ideas in the class, I came up with several questions that I want to think about. How does sound become the primary carrier of information? Moreover, how do we distinguish between what is real and what is false within sound or language? To give a very common example—lies and imagination.Could the acoustic…
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Sound Studies and Aural Cultures week6
My initial plan and theme for the audio paper is how we recognize sound as a message and our listening modes and habits. First of all, I need to know how sound is created and how our brain recognizes the vibration or the amplitude as a carrier of messages. So, for the beginning of everything,…
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sound 4 screen week6
This lesson has given me a lot to think about, especially regarding the theme: What is the role of music for the screen? What made me consider the most was whether music is still necessary if ambient sounds and foley are sufficient to convey emotions. What effect can music truly have on the screen? How…
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Sound for screen initial idea
The inspiration for this project comes from my personal experience. As someone with poor sleep quality, I often feel that surrounding sounds become amplified when I am tossing and turning. And my mind constantly replays and echoes sounds from the day, such as conversations or other memorable noises. Then it became a question that I…
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Coding week5
This is my first time that I have been in studying coding and doing or producing music, like generative music pieces. My motivation for using coding to make music can be related to my personal experience and ideas about nature and humans. The coding and synthesizers for the acoustic instruments are similar when it comes…
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Sound Studies and Aural Cultures week5
In this week’s study, I mainly gained three aspects of inspiration. The first one is related to Foley and the sound that we are hearing. In terms of the Foley making process, we will always use distinctly different objects and props to create and reflect certain scenes. But how does this happen? Why will our…
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CSP outcome review
This is the complete version of the final outcome. Advantage: For me, this attempt to compose is a brand new experience, and it broke many existing ways and notions of my work before. Firstly, the idea of my former work that choose the naturally existing things as symbols and imagery. Then, improvisation and composing many…
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CSP6 work process
This is the improvisation of using the module synthesis. I like how these different abrupt voices and unexpected surprises come together which is the favourite thing in improvisation. Like adjusting different sound effects and buttons can make very delicate and beautiful voice variation. There are three drum and synthesis pieces that were made separately. I…
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CSP 5
In the class, we are asked to use different synthesizers to make some sounds or pieces that we are interested in or satisfied with. I made three sounds and pieces that I found interesting, but sadly, due to the misuse of the saving process, only one of it are saved successfully. And this is a…
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CSP
This is the project of the song we were asked to load the synthesis and follow the instructions to make the same sound. And I really enjoy the process of changing the pan and amplitude using the curves. In the process of adjusting the pan of different instruments, I can feel the importance of the…