Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Final Project Proposal

I am not sure what genre my final project will be in. However, I plan to sample my own guitar playing and process this sound in the composition. I will be experimenting with altering guitar sounds to see what kinds of other sounds I can draw out of a raw sound. I am also considering using samples of other instruments, such as piano, but I am not as sure about that. Additionally, I plan to take samples of my own voice and either add effects or run them through a vocoder into a synthesizer. That said, I am not sure whether to include "lyrics" in the sense of a number of different phrases rather than a few words repeated.
I will likely have a distorted drum sound - I like this sound. However, I am still undecided as to whether I want simple or complex drum beats (I initially thought my 1-min Reason project would have complex drum beats, but they ended up being very simple, a change which I felt worked better). I will probably program drums using samples from ReCycle or Logic, as I found the ReDrum interface a bit cumbersome. The piece will likely not have verse-chorus structure, as many of my previously-written pieces do not. Overall, I think my project will end up taking the feel of a rock piece which happens to be done in an electronic medium, rather than a piece in a distinctly electronic genre.

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