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Sound projects: One minute concept. HfK Bremen 12. 2007

My one minute piece. I took three sound from an old semi-destroyed piano, we had at home in our garage, and then attacked its cords with a piece of wood. Those sounds were recorded on a laptop and after that, cleaned and normalized, getting ready to be cut, extended and distorted.

My goals here were to explore two core principles of composition in visual arts but in sound: zoom and symmetry. I extended one of my sources of sound from 0.05s to 30s, then equalised it and again extended up to 60s, it is my bass-drowned background. I use to give some space to this background a repetitive loop after 0:10s it is a mechanic texture. My foreground sound is composed on a complete symmetry, starting with a high pitch sound wrapped on a sine-wave form, after that it appears my central piece of symmetry, this source of sound was split in several pieces that don’t dwell in a stereo space, rather they reside just on one channel either left or right and jump all time from one channel to the other but never sound at the same time in both.

Hope you enjoy this experimental one-minute piece.

I recommend to listen to it either with a headset or with loudspeakers as far away from each other as possible.