Interactive Media with Max - Student Work 2017

In discussing American avante-garde filmmakers, we were introduced to Stan Brakhage's "Mothlight" and Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" and "The Very Eye of Night." Made in 1963, Mothlight is one of Brakhage’s older films. It has hundreds of moth wings, leaves, and other organic debris pressed together between two strips of tape. Brakhage described the film as: “What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.” I especially like how starting at 3:03 it looks like a moth crawling across to the right and then crawling back to the left. His 1981 film "The Garden of Earthly Delights," in which paint and plant material goes by at 24 frames per second, is similar. It's interesting how some people use it to enhance their musical performances but others find it insulting to Brakhage to add anything to it at all. Here it is with music added: Even earlier than Brakhage was the creative Ukranian-American M

Hey, I figured out how to get the cube to randomly change color every second. Maybe there's another way too? I "packed" the RGB so that I could get three inputs to hook up to "random" objects. But the random object generates numbers 1-99 instead of numbers from 0 to 1, so I multiplied each by .01. The metronome ("metro") asks for milliseconds, so I inputted 1000 to equal one second, and metro is also connected to "pack" so that it sends the data to "color." Lastly, I inserted the "bang" to start it.

I watched the video "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943) by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. It reminds me of "M" (1931) by Fritz Lang, but with more of an avante garde angle. I think that's why I liked this film the best of all the ones I watched. It had a storyline with the good old fashioned use of symbolism, but with elements of experimental film making. The effects that the piece utilized are all creative usages of the film itself, or how to work the camera. CGI has made the current movie makers of today a little lax when it comes to creative shot composition or transitions. It also perfectly captures those terrifying moments when you don't know whether you're dreaming or not. Through simple camera tricks like spiraling the frame position or low angle shots, it keeps the feeling of a dream state without bringing in fog and glitter. I also liked that it stayed true to dream logic. Spatial orientation and relationships are skewed, objects change into ot

Stan Brakhage Moth Light video was so interesting to me, first the idea of all the time used to glue each wing for each frame is just amazing. I really liked the idea that he used, and would love to use these images at some point with dance. Maya Deren The Very Eye of the Night, much like Moth Light I really enjoyed the film. The beginning was very interesting, and as the film moved into the dancers, it had my attention the whole time. I think that it is amazing that short films just like this have helped shape the 'digital media' world of dance. Both tutorials that where listed have been very helpful in understanding PD. I really enjoyed the playing with the motion detector, though I think I still need to have a better understanding, I am still finding my self just moving things around and seeing what happens, I do think that this helps.

After watching Mothlight, I noticed that it may have been interesting if Stan Brakhage hadn't named the work "Mothlight"...what if he had named it something totally different? Would images of moths flying across a light source come to my mind as I watched it? I also saw a few interesting images of leaves creating and disappearing before my eyes.  I tried an experiment of turning off all the lights in my room, placing the video on full screen, and playing music along the video. It was an experience; my eyes saw a lot more than the first viewing when I watched it in silence. In Maya Deren's The Very Eye of Night, the dancers almost seem like carboard cut outs that she overlayed over the night sky, but as the dancers began to dance, I began to really question exactly how she created such work in the 50s when advanced technology wasn't around to create such types of video effects. It looks like she used a negative effect on the dancers. I also noticed her choice of

MothLight: After watching the video again, I came to the conclusion that I was not a big fan. Naturally, when I look at pieces of work (art, video, music, etc.) I try and find a theme, message, story,etc. Here I just saw a convoluted sequence of images that had no story to tell or vision. Again this is just my personal opinion, but flashing (what 9 fps, frames per second) of random moth wings illuminated by the camera projection just doesnt do it for me. I understand the artistic value in the time he spend making these by hand and thus I respect that aspect, but just because something is custom and took a long time doesnt mean it is art, or does it? Maybe I'm wrong, but I wasn't convinced by this piece. The Very Eye of Night: Unlike MothLight, I really enjoyed Maya Deren's The Very Eye of Night. First I love the motion, the camera work and the technology for that time. I love the early stage keying of the dancers and placing them in a space back drop. I can't imagine

For this week's lecture on the American Avante Garde, the piece that most interests me is Merce Cunningham and John Cage's 1965 work, Variations V . Looking into the making of the piece, I found that it is truly collaborative: John Cage and David Tudor (an experimental composer and pianist himself who Cage often worked with and composed music for Tudor to perform) devised the musical material, Cunningham directed the choreography, and Stan VanDerBeek and Nam June Paik's manipulated the television images that were projected on screens behind the dancers. Aside from the interdisciplinary nature of the performance, what is most forward thinking, or "avante garde" about the work is the utilization of technology that "interacted" with the dancers. Billy Klüver, Cecil Coker and Witt Wittnebert, devised a system in which photocells and radio antennas were activated by dancer's movements, triggering 10 different tape-recorders and short-wave radios. Cage, Tu

The intricacies of Mothlight stand out to me the most. The fact that it doesn't have sound is very interesting because the images flashing so quickly seem very loud to me. If Stan Brakhage did this with old film and pasted every moth's wings on each strip, then this is true artistry. I think that the beauty lies in the details in this case, because he is demanding that we look at the film so closely. He has created this line of images when strung together are life-like in nature. In The Very Eye of Night , I am brought to a different world. The music with the background seem to give a feeling of otherworldly or extraterrestrial. Even though footage is 2D, the movie has another dimension to it. And when I look at it, I feel as if I am there. The images of the bodies on the screen is very eerie to me. However, when they start moving in patterns, I am brought to a place of more comfort. I feel like I am watching a telescope and a kaleidescope simultaneously. The dancers' face

Mothlight is a really interesting work of art. What makes it interesting for me is the amount of time put into the process and that the structure of the piece never changes. I wondered if he changed the amount of light that was showing through the wings or if that was consistent as well. I think the video can stand alone as art but also makes a beautiful back drop for any kind of live performance as well.  In lucinda Childs' video for her performance the dancers are doing the same choreography on stage as in the video. The dancers have to stick to a very strict structure in space which is difficult to begin with- but they also have no room for mistakes because the audience is comparing their live performance to the video right in front of them. The strict structure is what pulls me in to both of the pieces. 

These are a few music methods made popular by 'obsolete machines'. Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo .

The french word, "avant garde", when translated into english, means advanced guard . Watching the works of Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren, it's easy to see why they would be considered the vanguards of american film experimentation. "Mothlight", Brakhage's most well-known piece, is a fantastic example of outside-the-box thinking. At first it's off-putting to watch a film with no clear cut meaning or story behind it, but on repeated viewings, I began to gain an understanding of his works. I watched several of his other films, and saw that they all used methods that, to my knowledge, no one else had used. Rather than using the film as a canvas on which to record footage, he used the film AS the art itself. To a mainstream audience, his influence may not be blatant or obvious. But, I have a feeling that he inspired many filmmakers to spread out to more artistic viewpoints. It is worth mentioning, as a side note, that two of his students were Trey Parker and

Go here to start the tutorial http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData/GEMIntroduction http://web.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/Bewegungsmelder and download the .zip file from the page above, please read the information on the page too

This video is very interesting. Making this video out of moth wings is a crazy idea. The most different kind of video I have seen before. The colors of brown, green, white, gray and black flickering across the screen in the moth wings is very cool to see. It almost looks like leaves in the fall. To me, it also looks kind of like skin or veins on the skin. The lines and pieces of the moth wings are flickering fast across the screen. Watching this is creative and also bizarre. How would one think of the idea to create a video on this. Seeing the unique quality of this idea and the creation of the video is awesome. There must have been a ton of moth wings included throughout this video. Making a clip for 3 minutes of moth wings is so intriguing to see. Watching a few other videos of his to see his other creative ideas and inspirations was cool. I also like the ones we watched during class last week!!

For this week blog on Mothlight by Stan Brakhage. Also look up Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" or "The Very Eye of Night" Also, look up John Cage and Isadora Duncan.

Come see the Fall 2010 BFA Showcase On the Edge..... Shows: Thursday October 28th 7&9 pm Friday October 29th 7 pm Saturday October 30th 7 pm Sunday October 31st 2&4 pm All tickets $11 Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion room G-06 BE THERE :)

So if you peep my previous post I blogged about a hip hop medley that was put through an 8Bit NES sound effect and was inspired to make a mix of my own. Thanks to Francesca for directing me to a VST plugin that allowed me to have a little fun in Ableton... I still have 8 days left on the trial so I figured why not spend my Saturday night making some remixes. I used MIDI files of 3 popular songs with the effect on the tracks. See if you can name that tune! (Check the comments to see if you got them right.) Happy listening and reminiscing! (Doesn't it make you wanna go find your gameboy? Or blow on a few cartridges and shove them in your Nintendo 64?) =)

Here is my first composition to use Pascal's triangle. Think of it as sneak preview of what I am going to talk about in my tutorial in class.

I stumble (via stumbleupon.com) when I'm extremely bored, and I always come across some gems on the internet. I found this blog that posted a  hip hop medley that was put through an 8bit NES sound effect and thought it was really awesome! 8-bit Hip Hop medley How would I recreate this sound in Ableton? Am I capable of doing it there?

Here's my midterm on Band camp : http://jules29.bandcamp.com/track/justin-on-crack I messed with Melaney's Justin Beiber's Baby .wav file and added all the elements - enjoy :)

Here is my loop for the in-class exercise from last week. I had trouble getting into the blog so I'm posting it now. In the end the loop cuts off because of the way I exported it; just by setting the number of bars. It would have a clean end at the end of the loop if I had copied and pasted the loop along the timeline and exported up until the end of the last clip.

So my remix project turned out to have a pretty weird story to it. This song is about the opening of a club in which really fast talking aviators (the track that's sped up) and chanting monks (with reverb plug-in) are attending. At the end, a chanting monk does a throaty sigh as he realizes the event isn't too much fun after all. If you aren't scared off by how weird it is, take a listen:

Finally after many tries, I figured out how to use Noatikl and Maple Midi in Ableton. Here's what I created. WahWah by MHoltham

Here's the loop I made in Ableton.. I used Beyonce's Single Ladies. http://mholtham.bandcamp.com/track/singleladiesloop

Noatikl midi gen routed to Ableton with 'Mallets-Ceramic Grains' and AriesReverb/ Eq for VSTs. In-class2 by Your mom

http://bagelanddreamcheese.bandcamp.com/track/loop-midi-routing

Yo. Here it is: Looping by Fellagirly

Exported an 8-second loop (created with Noatikl) from Ableton after adding an arpeggiator to a cool lead synth sound. Then added echo, normalization, fades, and did some general cleaning up using Audacity. Check it out! Noatikl Loop by Vilma Jarvinen

So, I was having so much trouble with Noatikl so I just through this together without it. Its totally worth no more than a C-! http://cornelius1.bandcamp.com/track/in-class-project-2

Connections to Other Intellingence by Bears and the Bees

Noatikl Project by Waning Phase

guitar remix - looped in class by Jacqueline

In Class Project Oct. 11 by Gaby Izarra -Gaby Izarra

Midi generated from Nautikl, recorded into Ableton and warped with Arpegiator .

Ch, Ch, Ch, Check it out. Everybody do the WAV by Jam

Here is my midi file routed from Noatikl, with a loop and VST plug-ins - enjoy! :) http://jules29.bandcamp.com/track/atmosphoric

In-class Midi 10/11/2010 by Mollz

Here it is. Noatikl Loop by karinaisabel

Christina Hanley aka fasian's midi loop http://soundcloud.com/fasian21/midi-project-1

finally i am satisfied by maryyyyyyyyyyyyyy

http://digitalmel.bandcamp.com/track/loop-da-loop-via-noatikl Here is my loop :) -Melissa C

Class Loop Awesomness by Awesome

trippin balls by Digital Media Studio

Noatikl Loop

This is what I got. I recorded something that was too long so I just popped it into audacity and cleaned it up and changed it around a bit. MidiMaple and Ableton by Cory Oliver

here is my noatikl creation.... Noatikl_loop by whitney

ethnicdrummidi by Stiebbs

A. Live Loop_Tim by Timmy D and the Pimptones

This is a light, powerful program that can produce quick .avi files, but also can export to animated .gif files. http://www.virtualdub.org/index.html

http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html

Hello all, just wanted to say that Maple Midi works for me on a Vista. Here is the link http://www.maplemidi.com/Maple_driver.html Maple Virtual Midi Cable will be the one to download and it will be on the top of the page. Hope this helps! Elise

This is the link, just click download. You will have to install it and then restart your computer but when i opened up ableton after the reboot it was there http://www.maplemidi.com/Maple_tools.html

NAMe that Hook!! by Jacqueline

I wasn't trying to trick you guys with this one. I just thought I'd do something y'all would appreciate. http://cornelius1.bandcamp.com/track/haddaway

loop by whitney This one is pretty easy!!

Looper by KouteMizik

Siftables are small interactive computers with a display, wireless communication and motion sensing. Check them out: You can see Bjork's band using something similar called Reactables in "Declare Independence." Reactables are only used for music while siftables can be used in other ways. And there's a whole Ted Talk on siftables: Lastly and coincidentally, Michel Gondry did the awesome music video for "Declare Independence." He's everywhere!

Guess that sweet riff, shouldn't be too hard. http://trippfall.bandcamp.com/track/guess-that-hook

Varese-Edgard-and-Le-Corbusier_Poeme-Electronique_1958 I wonder why he used the sounds he did, and what they all mean. I also wonder how he made all those sounds. They take the listener through a range of emotions- from alarm to tranquility. I would like to see this piece performed. Lee “Scratch” Perry First off, I was happy to find out that Lee “Scratch” Perry is still alive, and has a working MySpace page. He’s obviously a pretty cool guy, and I like reggae so his music was nice too. Xenakis Concrete PH This piece is interesting. I think we mentioned in class that it sounds like the beads of a rain stick passing very slowly. It’s surprisingly soothing though—something I could even fall asleep to. It begins to get more intense as it goes on. Sounds cool though! Granular Synthesis Example This example is an artistic piece made by someone as an autobiography of his or her “first six years of life.” Super interesting! Sounds really cool. Name that riff! Shouldn’t be too hard. Name

This should be an easy one for people. I must say that despite the power of ableton I still find that for simple projects like this I prefer audacity. Loop by Cory Oliver

So this is a hip-hop tune that I believe most people should be familiar with. Enjoy!! namethattune by Stiebbs

I just realized that I'm not identifying myself....fasian21 is my user name....real name Christina Hanley

http://soundcloud.com/fasian21/hammertimeloop......Here's my recognizable phrase over and over again. I read about influences of dubstep because I'm totally  obsessed and realized that it did stem from reggae dub and drum and bass into 2-step. It's an evolving genre of music that's super original. Really I took this class so I can understand how to work similar music programs to eventually mix dubstep! Woooooo

This person demonstrates digital granular synthesis by using a vst plug-in that breaks a waveform into grains, or tiny samples, to create a soundscape recording. He changes the pitch, duration, delay, amplitude, etc. of the grains layered on top of each other. Granular synthesis was shaped by electrical engineer and researcher Dennis Gabor as well as the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. Curtis Roads is credited as the first person to implement digital granular sound processing. And here's the first granular synthesis piece by Iannis Xenakis called Concret Ph, which we discussed is several sounds of crackling embers.

So I finally saw "Dark Play or stories for boys" and thought it was fantastic. I had never heard of this story, let alone know that it was based on true events. It is amazing to me that this happened in 2005, when I thought that the world wide web was still taking off. However, this was when the depths of darkness has already been reached by little boys that need help. I thought the use of Digital Media was extremely pertinent to the telling of the story. I have heard critics say that in order to incorporate media into art, you have to be really knowledgeable about all of its possibilities. The incorporation of the three giant screens next to the space was both effective and simple. It seemed to supplement what each actor was saying and in a way that enhanced the words and not took away from their delivery. It was then used as an atmosphere to make the very black, black box seem like real life. After listening to Edgar Varese's work, I feel like the only way to sum up thi

sweetness. i hate ableton but i will conquer itttttt THATS RIGHT. i'm sorry i dont want to say that i wish i could say i love it so much. but honestly it scares me a lot so i procrastinate but i always end up doing it but i just make myself miserable the whole time up until the last second thinking about it...then once i am on i get so confused..then finally i figure it out and just want to be done with it. i wish i was amazing and understood it. well i figure i better look up some of those vocab words. I researched sampling rate for dummies..it didn't really work out. so i just started looking at websites and this somewhat maybe helped me understand a little. Sampling Rate: The sampling rate is the number of samples of data taken in one second for each channel of audio being recorded. CDs are recorded at 44,100 samples per second. The image below is a 1000hz signal recorded at 8000 samples per second. The bright green dots are the points where the data was taken. you can

Using Ableton I looped this hook. It's one I'm sure everyone knows. Guess the Hook. by karinaisabel And a second one, just for fun. Guess that Hook, Too. by karinaisabel Playing around with Ableton has been both fun and frustrating. I'm still trying to get the hang of it and the tutorials have helped simplify things. I also watched some of the other Chemical Brothers videos directed by Michel Gondry, and that turned into an hour of watching other Gondry music videos. He's kind of awesome, but I'm not sure how that relates to this lesson.

Professor Pagano was gracious to help me figure out how to create a beat in Ableton Live. I am including the two beats our interaction spawned. The first is Pagano's drum 'n bass sounding beat with dark sound effects. The second is his beat plus the beat I created laid on top. Mine is a more frivolous noise-driven beat, which I think complements his well. I call the modified beat "Drum n' Bass Cowboy". And lastly, I am uploading a "hook" as it were from a popular metal song from the 90's. I feel like many songs have more than one memorable phrase, but this is a clear example of a riff that sticks with the listener, regardless of what their musical preferences are.

Just finished up on my loop of a famous hook. See if you can guess what it is! I modified it a good bit using both Abelton and Audacity, but I think it should be pretty easy to figure out. Rolling Stones Hook by Waning Phase This was a really fun project to do, and it helped me to understand Ableton and Audacity a lot better. Having a pre-existing song to work with was much easier, and I was able to go deeper into the controls in order to create a seemless loop. I also was able to learn how to play with the VST Plugins without making it sound like "dogmeat". (hopefully!) Ever since we started discussing hooks in class, I've been paying attention to hooks on the radio and in the songs I listen to on my iPod. I've definitely noticed that 90% of modern popular music is pushing more towards the electronic "dance" scene, and there is a lot of looping going on.

And now for another round of Name that Loop: Loop de Loop by Vilma Jarvinen The "slice to midi" and "extract groove" features are helpful for creating and then customizing loops in Ableton. However, I think an even simpler way for our purpose is to just loop a part of your imported clip with this track view (as shown in class): Adjust the flags until you get a smooth loop of the repeated motif. Then export the loop and clean it up in Audacity. In my case, I noticed a small blip at the end of the loop, so I used Audacity to edit it out. I also made the loop twice as long and added a fade in and out.

I am going to start by listing some thoughts and images that came to mind: Church bells, Cartoon sound effects, Galactic or space like, the consistent use of Silence, Ambient, Elements of surprise. The piece really made me think of electronic and technological sounds of the 60s. I was highly reminded of the Alwin Nikolais dance theater and I am sharing with you this short clip of a couple pieces the company did at the Joyce this summer. I was actually able to see the show in May and listening to Poeme Electronique really transported me back to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYjIKBVoks -Melissa C

This week! My boyfriend came in town and I was thinking of a song to use for my loop. He gave me the idea of this song and I really liked it so, I decided to go along with it. The loop sounds pretty cool. I think you guys will probably be able to guess at it. We will see! I can not upload it, because my computer will not let me use bandcamp, I usually upload on Mary's computer. So I will share it will you all tomorrow! I did listen to the Chemical brothers, star guitar and timber. I found them all equally interesting. The effects of each video are very cool. Some of it reminded me of the movie INCEPTION. I love how you can make a beat or rhythm and then just keep adding sounds and effects to make it more complex. The end!

Here is the link for my repeating hook: http://digitalmediastudio.bandcamp.com/track/the-repeating-hook josh

The thing that most intrigued me about what Pat said we should look for when listening to and experiencing Poeme Electronique was to question if there was a story hidden in it. I watched  this Youtube video. Certainly the visuals add a very complex and intricate story of what I believe to be the start of human kind, and the subsequent creation of art and culture which is interrupted by death and war. To be specific, the World Wars. The beginning illustrates the wonder in how we came to be, how animals came to be, and how scientists still puzzle over what we are made of. Hands and eyes are images that are used the most in the middle. The eyes are questioning the viewer, telling us to really see what is going on, to make connections. Eyes are the windows to soul after all. The skeletal hands symbolize what humanity can create. They are skeletal for two reasons: to remind us of death (foreshadowing!) and to remove any biases based on skin color or nationality. Those hands which can in o

Since we got a pretty good run down of the old school history of synth and drum machines this past week, I looked into some newer synths. The synths that I am love with are the Roland Fantom series which are considered synth workstations. These keyboards have thousands of preset sounds and instruments just like A.Live and allow you analog knobs and sliders to control massive amounts of digital parameters so you can have the flexability of an old school analog synth. This synth also has a laser which grids your hand and judges the distance of your hand to the laser and adjusts the sound (modulation, pitch, frequency...etc) accordingly. A lot of cool features with this synth. In addition it has hammer action keys (weighted) so it feels like a real keyboard and not some flimsy piece of plastic. Another board (pat fav) is the micro korg. (aka minikorg) the beauty of this guy is the versatility and size. It adds a good amount of sounds and allows you to tweak a lot of parameters. The coo

A fan of reggae and dub step, I was very intrigued with our class discussion on 10/4 and went on to research and discover more on the genius who gave birth to dub, Lee Scratch Perry. Reading about him, I learned that he ended many business related partnerships due to constant disagreements, which strikes me as odd for he seems to be a laid back man. Maybe, the other guy would not like his no worries lifestyle. I have been listening to various songs and watching videos but, this one... (below) is awesome. Check it

If anybody happens to be in the neightborhood. I ran into this looking at some shows for Girl Talk. http://moogfest.com/

Here is my looped "hook" http://digitalmel.bandcamp.com/track/michael-jackson-hook-loop -Melissa C

In class today Pat talked about mashups. I really like Bob Marley's music so I decided to see what kind of mashups were created with his music. Some notable ones were Bob Marley with Incubus, or John Mayer, but the best in my opinion was with the godfathers of metal Iron Maiden! Mashups are fantastic because they will usually present an uncanny connection between two very different songs. Two of my favorite mashups are here and here I promise this was not meant to be a rickroll, its different because Nirvana was in it.

Everything here is freesound samples. I found a great sample pack of all guitar riffs. Would love some feedback/comments. Strumming Birds by tinypaperboats

Would love some comments and feedback. I added a sound effect from free sound and slowed the tempo down a bit. Big Spaceship by tinypaperboats

Swedish software engineer Linus Åkesson converted an old-school organ into an 8-bit synthesizer by rewiring the keys, pedals and buttons to a couple of microcontrollers. Pretty cool, huh?

Explanation of 44.1 kHz CD sampling rate The CD sampling rate has to be larger than about 40 kHz to fulfill the Nyquist criterion that requires sampling at twice the maximum analog frequency, which is about 20 kHz for audio. The sampling frequency is chosen somewhat higher than the Nyquist rate since practical filters neede to prevent aliasing have a finite slope. Digital audio tapes (DATs) use a sampling rate of 48 kHz. It has been claimed that thier sampling rate differs from that of CDs to make digital copying from one to the other more difficult. 48 kHz is, in principle, a better rate since it is a multiple of the other standard sampling rates, namely 8 and 16 kHz for telephone-quality audio. Sampling rate conversion is simplified if rates are integer multiples of each other. From John Watkinson, The Art of Digital Audio, 2nd edition, pg. 104: In the early days of digital audio research, the necessary bandwidth of about 1 Mbps per audio channel was difficult to store. Disk driv

"Dark Play or Stories for Boys" was a very interesting show, and the ideas that we discussed in our Digital Media class were defiantly used. The show used three projection screens, and my favorite part of the night was the use of the 90's style screen savers. They also used alot of sound effects such as "You've got mail!" and some classic IM sounds. Another favorite moment of the show was during a chat room scene "Patmyass" was one of the names used. :)

I'm here, once again, TRYING to do this, I don't know if I just forget all these little tricks to this difficult trade but, I am struggling. I am just kind of messing around with all of the tools in ableton but, its frusterating because I am not sure if they are correct or not. This is killing me. I need a study buddy or some other insight from someone. I thought I could be independent with this. My computer also can not handle all of these programs. They make it extremely lethargic and it wants to go to sleep all the time! AH! Any help, from any one?

http://soundcloud.com/fasian21/christinagagaidea Followed a beat making tutorial and came up with this.

Playing on ableton had been interesting. I decided to chose a completely different song than my audacity project. I turned my song from Itunes into a WAV file and put it into ableton. I feel like I have no clue what I am doing, but I decided to play around with it, because this is part of our homework. I hope that I did not do the complete wrong thing, but I am trying to understand the program every time I get on. I was messing around with the loop aspect of it and them came upon warp and reverse. I changed the arrangement in the options bar to try and use the beats and different noises you can involve into your piece, but it got pretty confusing. I love what I saved with the reverse and the loop, I just do not know how to make the beat. I hope that Pat will review this more efficiently in class tomorrow. I really do want to understand the program, but I can not do it on my own. I need your help more in class. I think that I would really like to use the program if I understoo

i feel very accomplished with all the naming folders and having everything organized for my USB. tryyyyying to Work with my sound i made from last class loop. once you make a loop you can use the space bar to start and stop the song just like in itunes and audacity/garageband. however, when i open up the view as arrangement to try to look like the ableton lesson on beats...the picture of my sound goes away. it looks like nothing is there. not sure how to start mine out like the lessons. apparently you can use impulse or an effect to separate the sound and make different beats out of the one sound. also you can use the keyboard to add beats in on keys a through k. when making my imaginary beat...... well as i was complaining and freaking out this entire time almost smashing my computer screen in, i finally realized that i was making sounds with my fingers on the keyboard YAYYYYYYYYYYY however i do not know why that is happening because my screen looks nothing like the lessons!!!!!!!OK

Hey everyone. I created a beat and then thought it sounded really cool when replaced with piano. Check it out - here's the beat replaced with piano: Beat to Piano Transform by Vilma Jarvinen And I combined the reconstituting a midi assignment with adding all the other required tracks (including my own midi creation) & effects. I call the result "When Mario Went Crazy." The Time Mario Went Crazy by Vilma Jarvinen