CC3 Week 3 - Communication Architecture: OSC & MIDI

This week I was in a group with Dave, Jake, Luke and John for our weekly assignment. Sending message data from computer to computer wasn't too hard. The challenge for me came when we needed to send MIDI data between computers. Without the help of the group I wouldn't have had much luck. We all seemed to help each other. Jake was on fire with his SC skills!

Below is a short movie we recorded. You can hear Dave's professional keyboard skills. I have also attached the code.



CC3 Week 3 SC Code


[1] Christian Haines. "Creative Computing: Semester 1 - Week 1 - Introduction To SuperCollider". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 20th March 2008.

AA3 Week 3 - Recording "Outside the Square"

This week I teamed up with Luke to do our recording. It was much easier this week to work as a team. Last week the process took a lot longer. Luke's idea was to record a Harp which I found interesting. I had never recorded this instrument before. During our Audio Arts class I observed the Koto from different angles to work out where the actual sound was coming from. I took the same approach with the Harp. At the back of the Harp there were two sound holes. I thought the best approach would be to use those holes to capture the body of the sound and then the place a microphone near the strings to capture the higher frequencies and the sound of plucking the strings.

After recording a classical guitarist last year, I learnt that a classical guitarist does not want the sound of the string being plucked in the recording. When asking my Harpist whether she wanted plucking in the recording she didn't know. I found that a bit strange. Luke ended up playing the Harp anyway. I was impressed with how good he was. I had a go and found the fingering challenging but all the notes sounded right!



mics all over!


AUDIO
U89 Stereo Spread [144KB]
U89 Stereo Spread + U87 Room Mic [224KB]
U89 Stereo Spread + U87 Room Mic + Rodes NT5 Strings Mic [200KB]
U89 Stereo Spread + Rodes NT5 Mic In the Sound Hole [188KB]



[1] David Grice. "Audio Arts: Semester 1 - Week 3 - Recording Outside The Square". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 18th March 2008