"Imagine you only had one sound to compose from! How much could you tweak this sound to become a living, breathing composition with a variety of different textures?"
The Interpretive Audio Composition Collective is a Soundcloud-based group dedicated to the pursuit of this concept. The idea is really to dive deep into the source and keep on sculpting it through process until it becomes something you like . . something you regard as a piece of music . .
The possibilities that can be derived from one sound and manipulated through editing, sampling, filtering and a variety of effects are only limited by one's imagination. Recommended tools of the trade include delays, re-sampling, glitching process, vocoders, distortion, time stretching, time freezing and so forth.
Basic Rules
- Once every [dynamically determined time period] a source sample will be uploaded by the group moderators
- Source sample will always be 44.1khz 16bit WAV (may be mono or stereo)/li>
- Members download this source sample and set about constructing their piece
- Pieces can be between 1 and 5 minutes long
- One can only use the source sample as the sound source, no external sounds!
- Process the sample by any means necessary, except re-amping or re-recording. Sample must stay in the digital realm
- Once you are happy with your piece, upload it to your Soundcloud account and then add it to the I.A.C.C. group
- Please include the name of the source sample in parenthesis in your track title, eg. "Red Black - Rad Track [Sample#1]"
- Enjoy basking in the warm glow of rapturous acclaim from your fellow group members!
If the group takes off we may be able to do something more interesting with the submissions . . . A web page is currently in construction to show off the submissions!
Feel free to put forward any questions/ideas etc. and come visit us at soundcloud.com/groups/i-a-c-c
No comments:
Post a Comment