Digital Sounds - Pitch In

With at least the Math and Art Essay out of the way it was now time to dedicate all our efforts towards the Aural Terrains Project until Friday seeing as a we had a live performance in front of a real live audience. Meaning, we had to of course deliver something good for the audience to like. So taking in the compliment and criticism from last week's performance we knew we had to step up our game. We were keen on the idea still, but need more around it so as a team we discussed what we had to bring and what was needed before we found Zoe and pitched in the final idea to her. We wanted four stations, one for each person where everyone would have a different instrument to play at hand. One station was dedicated to the laptop where a robotic voice-over would be narrating the piece in the background. One station for a typewriter to emphasize digital sounds as it was typing it would give off a certain beat because, for every new line you would have to reset the typewriter. One for the circuit that we had before for the basic component of digital sound. And, another would be stationed with a Mobile Phone where we would use the static of a phone next to the speaker to produce the heavy beeping sound that is commonly heard from the interference of a phone and speaker. With that in mind we headed to Zoe and having now heard our idea Zoe immediately had a change of heart towards our progress and liked our direction. So with that we quickly requested a practice session in the Chroma Key Room at 12-1. And with a happy heart knowing we were going the right way with a solidified idea it was time to designate who needed to do what and who needed to bring what. Unfortunately not everyone had all the materials at hand so our job was to of course go shopping. We had the laptop, we had the circuit and we of course had mobile phones however we needed to go shopping for a typewriter but, unfortunately on our travels none revealed themselves to us. So it was now time to think up of something new for the now empty station and that was when we laid eyes on something new.. A Record Player. The disc could be scratched and reversed to create the warping sound, a song could be played in the background that matched our digital theme and of course we could change the speed on a record player for variation. This meant that the record player would be able to play as the base tempo for all of us to follow and fortunately enough for us Daniel already had a record player at home and of course everyone had stereos and speakers already from home too. And thinking ahead we also brought in a little stereo speaker for the static sound of the plug in on the finger by removing and adding the finger at intervals for static. So with all the shopping done, feet tired and ready to go it was home time to freshen our minds for practice tomorrow.