Week Two Sound Lab - The Rite of Spring Simulation

assignment

Part 1:

Below are two very short audio samples from the Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky. These are both taken from the 2nd movement - "Dance of the Adolescents," one of which is a loud chord, the other of which is a soft chord. Create a program that imitates the opening of this movement. This program should alternate between the loud and soft chords in a semi-random pattern. You can either make the program play in the exact same rhythm as the original, or make a program that uses random numbers to create a similar, but totally unique rhythm.

[[Media:loud.wav]] (option-click to download) [[Media:soft.wav]] (option-click to download)

Part 2: Go onto the freesound website (http://www.freesound.org/). Download some sounds that you think you might like to use in a rhythmic way. Copy your code from the Stravinsky project above and create a new version of the software that uses these samples in an interesting way.

The results: What I like is that people came up with some very different solutions to this problem, some of which I would have never thought of. Tiange and Joe got to the bonus round, so don't let those scare you. (OK, its all right if Tiange's scares you!)

Hayeon

Jenny and May

Jeremy

Joe

Joe2 (SynthPop)

Joe3 (Complex Synth Loop)

Michael

Tiange

Joe's loop code with arrays - from Evan