MTF week 12

Ken • Approaches as remix (not mix), seeks to create own version of song • Chooses loops that sound interesting and builds from there. • Cheated and did the bulk of the preliminary investigating, altering and structuring of samples in Ableton Live (where is our Ableton live Adelaide University? Why don’t the rest of the Diploma class get given the hint that this programme exists? Are we supposed to discover it on the task bar all on our own?!!!! The right tools for the right job I say!) • Does nifty things with chopped up vocals that give piece a real techno feel Me • See write up! Josh – Shock the Monkey • Experimented with putting the left and right drum track out of phase, it was unsuccessful. • Remix bares little resemblance to original. • Abandoned the vocal line, sampled the phrases “Shock the Monkey” and “monkey, monkeeey” and created a vocal line from that (an almost satirical treatment of the song in my opinion) • Found many of the audio samples supplied to be of poor quality – thus was limited to a minimal instrumentation • Samples have too many effects on them already for it to be worthwhile using anymore (effects) Brendan – If I had My Way • Ambitiously attempted to make an Industrial mix • When that proved too hard, went for a Hard Rock feel • Double tracks vocals ala Ozzie, double tracked guitars (hard left and right) • Effects on the drum kit (something I had yet to think of) • Amplitude on just about everything • Combination of gain, amplitude, chorus and pitch shift used on vocals to make them abrasive. • Would have employed the Kylie Effect on the vocals if the plug in was available. Lauren – People’s Colony No. 1 • Had problems with samples of irregular sizes • EQed samples and liked the result • Use of repetitive beeping sound would have been excellent for giving the piece a techno feel if mixed for the forum room speakers. • Mentioned that she would have liked to spend time building the piece up and then bringing it down again (which would have been good) but felt constrained by time limits.