Month: October 2021

Pro Tools 101 Lesson 1

1. Name and describe five types of production tasks that ProTools can be used for.

Audio Processing

Midi Editing

Score Sitation

2. What’s the frequency range of human hearing? 

20hz 20khz (20 cycles per second)

3. What does the frequency of a sound wave affect in terms of how we perceive the sound? How is frequency measured? 

Frequency affects the pitch of a sound, the higher the rate the higher the higher the pitch. Frequency is Measured in Hertz (old school version: cycles per second)

4. What does the amplitude of the sound wave affect? How is amplitude measured? 

Amplitude affects the Loudness and gain of a sound wave. Measured in Amps

5. How does the sample rate of a system relate to the frequency of audio it can capture? What is the name of the law that specifies the relationship between sample rate and audio frequency? 

Sample rate should be twice the rate of audio as the one its trying to capture, relates to the number of samples of audio playing per second. The law is called the format.

6. How does the bit depth relate to the dynamic range of audio it can capture. How can you estimate the dynamic range of a system? 

The bit dept is the maximum dynamic range range between the lowest and highest sounds. Also greater accuracy of the amplitude of a sample. Take bit depth but multiply it by 6.

7. What are some common digital connections available on Pro Tools audio interfaces? What type of connector jack does each use? 

RCA, XLR, S/PDIF

8. Name some audio interfaces that are compatible with standard Pro Tools software. 

Any audio interface with core audio(Mac) and AISO (Windows)

Focusright Scarlett,

9. Name some Avid audio interfaces that are compatible with Pro Tools | Ultimate software. 

Protools HD

4/10/21 Introduction to Sound Arts Week 1

We were discussing what we thought “Sound Arts” was, it was interesting to see how some people were saying that only humans can make art. Me and my partner were talking about how its about the perceiver as well as the creator. Because once you have created said thing it is only art when someone with self aware consciousness interacts with it. A lot of the time a piece of art will be created with a specific meaning but once put into the hand of the many its meaning is distorted to fit the narrative of the interpreter, E.g. a lot of leftist punk/revolutionary songs have been played at Fascist rallies, and i doubt that Rage Against the Machine would’ve been happy seeing their songs used for the opposite what they believe.

On a similar note if a bird is chirping and singing a beautiful melody, is that bird aware that what it is singing is so beautiful, or is beauty only imbued to the birdsong by a human observer that has made him feel a certain way. Art doesn’t always need to be intentional as some accidents or just documentation of a sound without and processing can be as much art as something that was intentionally created. There is a device that you can hook up to mushrooms and trees that records their electromagnetic waves and converts them into midi/or voltage signals that can be used to trigger and instrument or make its own sound. Recording the mushrooms waves you means you have no control over what the mushroom will do so you are more of a backseat driver to natures perfect randomness and by documenting that you are shining a light an otherwise hidden world.

On the other hand juxtaposed to natural is A.I, my parter said showed be a video that Artificial Intelligence can produce art, it posed so many question in my head. Does the A.I know it’s making art or is it just replicating what it’s seen. And does A.I have the ability to feel art or is it just trying to replicate the reaction that it sees from others.

For my project i want to use synthetic and natural sounds and juxtapose the contrast between serene natural sounds and the industrial background noise of everyday life. The sound track for TUTSUO IRON MAN i am going to dissect and analyse the use of industrial sounds.

Natural:

Flesh squelching

Dog Barking

Bird chirping

Synthetic/ Mechanical :

Drill/industrial site

Traffic