For this assignment, Theory IV students were asked to create a short composition that explores one or more of the following late 20th century musical elements or styles:
Technology
Indeterminacy
Minimalism
Benny Gammerman: Telephone Lines
Telephone Lines and Self Destruction were both made using nothing but Garageband and a midi keyboard. Telephone Lines uses a lot of phone sounds and the vocal harmonies are influenced by the Beach Boys. Self Destruction is supposed to represent someone coming apart.
Benny Gammerman: Self-Destruction
Branden Stroup: Adolescent Chores
For some reason this song reminded me of being a kid and being told I couldnˇ¦t play any longer until I finished some chores. It has 4 sections, all of which were created from recording stuff in (or from) my room. The first is a pull-toy and people screaming outside. The second is my roommate talking on the phone, put backwards and sped up with a miniature gong I tried to make sound life-sized ringing in the background. The third section is my roommate sped up more and pitch-shifted to different pitches with the pull-sound from the beginning slowed down incredibly in the background (this pull-sound continues for the second half of the third section. The fourth section is a bunch of appliances (microwave, air conditioner, toaster oven, soap dispenser, lamp, water faucet) looping to make a 10/8 beat. Program - ProTools.
Jonathan Carpenter: Untitled #3
Allison Bradbury / Bree Douty: Ik Mis U (I Miss You)
Allison Bradbury / Bree Douty: Ik Mis U (I Miss You) - (Score)
Calvin Pia: Blake, Get Your Sh-t Together!
Abe Burns: Falling (prelude to Stuck & Confusion)
Sasha Awn: Electronic Phase (aka Carnival)
This was made in GarageBand since I don't have the funds or the motivation to purchase a fun program like Logic or whatever. I recorded a little piano riff that I made a while back and then copy and pasted the same track at different starting points in light of Steve Reich's phase music. Sort of. Then I varied the pitch content and tempo of each new track and I came up with this. It's called "Carnival" because the high notes make it sound like really screwed up carnival music.
Nick Genovese: Stereo Noise Experiment II
Anand Sridharan: What Day Is It?
I started making this piece the same day I downloaded Audacity, which I had never used before. I was playing with loops, all sampled and adjusted for pitch and tempo to line up correctly. When I was done, I realized that the sounds reflected a sort of hypnotic state that I had been in for most of the semester because I was just so busy, something that many of us can probably relate to. The piece was actually rather therapeutic.
Kevin Cox: Foodstuffs and Baggages
Pete Cornell: Procrastination Nation (Part 1)
Lisa Allen: Summertime in the Congo
Nick Isles: April 19th - the one that got away
It starts out as a soundscape of my dorm room, i stuck my condensor mic various places about; out the window, in the other room while people were watching a movie, in the bathroom, in the center of my room. As a kind of concept piece it captures a bit of my life, sitting around, messing around on the guitar and eventually coming up with a piece. The song at the end i just wrote earlier in the evening. I realized about halfway through that this format is very Olivia Tremor Control-esque, although they create ficticious soundscapes rather than autobiographical and the songs are very beach boys/beatles inspired rather than folk based. Realising this, though, i took a page out of their book. Instead of re-recording the track, i overdubbed a few layer to make it stick out more and more until it's eventually overwhemling... This piece utilizes technology, overdubbing, as well as indeterminacy, the soundscape. This piece was recorded using Adobe Audtion software.
Paul Rothman: Le Bateau Coulant
Trevor Herzig: Do You Hate Mushrooms?
Daria Issaveya: Requiem for a Russian Cartoon Soundtrack
Meghan Hartley: Technology Piece
Stephen Koshgarian: Into Thy Hands
Isaac Jaffe: Orson Welles' Batman (excerpt)
Ion Marmarinos: Visions of the White Wulf (film score)
Jared Weiss: Semitonal Circus Space Flight
CONCEPTUAL WORKS
Rachel Blackburn: The Audience
Lindsey P. Hoffman: Audience Conducts
