Getting Bent - Take 2

Due to the recent and untimely death of my pink keyboard, I have decided to tell this gem to get bent instead. Here is a video of how it acted before the bending began! Also, if you watch carefully, you will get to see a portion of my cat! Its a two for one deal!

Curios

So, apparently none of my previous video posts feel like working, but here is a link to my youtube channel which contains all of the videos that we shot!

http://www.youtube.com/user/brigidrose

A series of tests!

A series of tests

Potential Project Ideas

So I'm thinking I would like to try to explore using instruments in an unconventional way, but I'm not sure if this feels far enough away from the example in the book. Other ideas include manipulating water with the sound waves coming off of these instruments and using them in a scene that looks like two people having a normal dialogue. For example, maybe we can be at a dinner table set up and having a conversation about what we did that day but through our own symbols. To me, the sound that comes off of the symbols when vibrated off the speakers makes me think of having a strained conversation, like one that might take place at the dinner table of an unhappy couple.

Piezo Sound Samples... Finally

Sorry for the delay! Some of these samples are me trying to get the levels right with the m-audio. There are also a few really cool ones that I took up in Kensington when there was a big fire going on, and a few that are songs that I recorded at band practice. There is an extra drum kit in our practice space, so for each song I tried taping the mic to a different drum head to see how the sound would turn out. For the most part it was pretty garbled, but there was one drum that did a really great job of recording.

Enjoy!

Piezo mic sound samples

I have had some issues with trying to attain a recording device that would properly pick up the vibrations I'm getting from my microphone. First I thought my iPhone would be able to do so, but I was mistaken. Then, my back up plan of using garage band on my computer failed because I was unable to figure out how to change the input settings in the program. I also tried changing the input settings in my computers preferences, but that did not work as I had hoped either.

Long story short, I have an m-audio device that I am taking out of the equipment room today, so I should have recordings to post to my blog very soon.

This is a place holder!