Create a plan for sound palette

[jmej]

This might be guided by our color pallete Could a shared folder of sounds / clips / loops Could be shared max patch Could be an ableton session

[abbymachines]

some inspo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvl_IGwyCmU - cartoon sound effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8fwWZD159k - HARD by SOPHIE

zany silly sounds is the vibe of these clips

some ideas:

• a shared max patch could be a good idea, because then we could develop a shared system where every element affects every other. the task could get fairly elaborate but it can be done. (also performance issues is another thing to think about)
• connecting a max patch to ableton could also be good if we want to leverage the flexibility of max with the easy synthesis of ableton. i have some fun ableton presets i made i could share
• we could also have a max patch interact with other sensory elements in the room

[jmoneyfur]

~ Sound Palette Vibes ~ Crisp, Playful, Zany / Humorous, Wingnut, (shorter attack, longer releases)

Sounds tied to gesture - direct sound effect feeling Unexpected / Uncommon scale & sonic associations (ie feathers to affect glass shattering sound) Washes Building Up

[hspencerwallace]

sound drive (put stuff in here): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IKbkPVW5XndUMcaBE9k1_Ct2GDMaTsnr?usp=sharing

[hspencerwallace]

some things we liked from listening to J's work: willy wonka esque little short sounds popping out from the background machine, metallic,

[hspencerwallace]

do we want the focus of the sound composition to be musical?

do we want to do stuff in equal temperament?

do we want to subscribe to a specific key?

[hspencerwallace]

for now, if you have a tonal/musical piece that's in a specific key, you could label it as such.

[hspencerwallace]

spatialization: we are planning to use unity gain (32 channel speaker array). we can use either MIAP or SPAT as the software to spatialize. MIAP allows you to specifically place sounds at or near speakers, and SPAT uses ambisonics that assumes a "sweet spot" in the center of the room. That decision will be made later, and it would good to test both in the actual space. We can work on the actual panning without deciding whether we will use MIAP or SPAT.

learn more about MIAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHVwQSkv9s&list=PLHc927eu2oKbvIIvzYbc8L5JEUZ-xU8uN

[abbymachines]

@jmoneyfur could you share the Max patch you were showing us in class on Tuesday?

[jmoneyfur]

I shared my MAX patch in my Capstone Sound Folder on google drive, it's called "Sound Scramble."

I added some notes inside of it for explanations of what things do. I also went ahead and just plugged in some of the sounds we've already made for the class -- what was in the drive was mostly sounds from Steven and I, so those are the sounds in the patch right now.

I don't know if we'll want to use this exact patch, depending on how we want to group sounds. The patch is set up so that the sounds are grouped by length, for playback purposes. We might want to cluster or group sounds that are sonically similar, instead of just by length. There are a few ways I'm not totally convinced this patch as is will be what we want to use, but I know folks were wanting to look at it up close (although it is a bit messy)!

Enjoy!