Interesting ideas for music

Here are some ideas for things you can experiment with using DSP. If you have made something you are particularly pleased with, write a few words about it and we will share it with others on this page. We can also include your e-mail address so others working with DSP may get in touch with you.

• Idea 1: The farm as music?
  1) In the sound archive you will find many sounds from domestic animals. Use them to make a barn that sounds like you think it would if all the animals should be hungry at the same time.
  2) Afterwords, move around the sounds you have, and make a "conversation" between the animals - that happens often, right ;-) - animals talk mostly with other animals of the same species as themselves.
  3) Can you manage to make a "choir" with bass, tenor and soprano basesd on the animal sounds? You might need to transpose (move up or down) a few sounds, and stretch some so they become longer.
  4) Can you make a kind of "counterpoint", where the diferent sounds move towards and away from each other according to a pattern that it is possible to recognize?
• Idea 2: From one thing to another
  1) Make or gather some sounds from the archive here, and make a short piece where all the sounds first move from left to right, and then from right to left.
  2) Make it so that some of them move fast, and others move slow. Try also to change the speed with which some of the sounds develop.
  3) Proceed to make the piece so that at first everything moves fast, and then gradually slower until everything stops and just sounds for a few seconds until everything slowly disappear to one side.
  4) Let all the sounds come back again from the same side, and move across, like the verses in a song. Put in new sounds to announce each verse.
  5) What is the story of the sounds that announce the verses. Can that be developed further?
• Idea 3: An ear-story
  1) Find some sounds in the archive that you can use to make make a sound history about something you have experienced, or from where you live.
  2) First use the sounds that are most common, and then add sounds that are less obvious.
  3) Are there some sounds that you could have been without? Are there sounds that are in each other's way?
  4) How would it have been if all the strongest sounds disappeared? Try to just keep the five weakest sounds and see which story they tell! How can you make that more interesting? More fun? Is there enough space between the sounds?
• Idea 4: Make a piece with sounds from the Internet
  1) At for example Samplenet, there is a bunch of different sounds and sound effects. An interesting thing to do is to download some sound effects from there and combine with the sounds on the DSP pages.
  2) Dream up a little story about something that might have happened, and make it with sounds. It does not have to be very long, as long as it has soem meaning to you.
  3) Give the story a new ending, and make that also with saounds.
  4) Which story did you like the best, and what was the sound like that changed the story? can you give the story a new meaning by moving the sounds just a little?
  4) Test you ability top tell stories by playing the story for others and see if they understand what you were thinking. If it does not match - why don't you make their story, too?