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This was the final project for last term's digital music class, made with Pro Tools and Reason 3. I've made some further edits to it, so I feel pretty safe in making it public now.

Variously in 5/4 and 4/4 time. Made entirely from the following newly-recorded sounds (isolated regions with Pro Tools, then imported into Reason):

Tuned:
-Chewbacca voice imitation (looped)
-Glass hit
-Kalimba
-Pop bottle whistle (looped)
-Tuba low
-Tuba high (looped)
-Tuba multiphonics

Percussion:
-Shoe zipper
-5 mouth noises
-breath in
-"ding" (voice)
-Ruler twang
-Ride cymbal hit
-Djembe

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Score: 9

"I understand what people mean now."

by: Chronamut

date: June 22, 2009

when they say that different time signatures sound.. awkward.. this sounds awkward,.. just because of the 5/4 time signature - I made an experimental song with 5/4 before.. this is very odd hahaha..

didn't know you made music man :)

-shawn-

June 23, 2009

Author's Response:

It's just your ears, used to simple 4/4 and 3/4 time. :) In this case, there are really two pulses: the 5/4 (3+2) and the 10/8 (3+3+2+2). And behind that, there's a background percussion part that repeats every 4 beats.

Klezmer and Bulgarian music makes great use of odd time signatures.

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Score: 8

"Cool song"

by: 1Snowman1

date: June 21, 2009

It has a very mysterious circus feel to it. The one thing that kinda bugged me was the Tuba part at :35 and 2:15 or so. I was thinking something about that needed to be changed, like maybe if you added some release it might blend with the song better. It was a good song regardless, nice work Esn. :)

June 21, 2009

Author's Response:

Thanks Snowman. I'm not quite sure what you mean about the tuba part, though - it's not obvious to me... it's possible that it sounds differently on your speakers/headphones than it does on mine... that's a constant headache.