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College of San Mateo, Fall 2022, Portfolio I project for our winter Electronic Music Concert. This is an excerpt from my upcoming, multi-episode Asian Fail pod called, Japanese American Basketball: A League For Their Own. I recorded the interview with Chris Komai using Squadcast remote recording service. I recorded outdoor basketball bounces with a TASCAM, and a classmate recorded game noises with a Zoom (not the virtual meeting company) mic on his phone. I used both in the concert piece. For the mix I wanted to give a feeling of Natalie Nakase’s interest in basketball being sparked, then growing, and rising to take her places in basketball she probably didn’t think was possible (she was the first female assistant coach in the NBA). I wanted to convey the feeling of getting an idea, setting a goal, and working toward your goal. I used Logic to edit, EQ, add reverb, and software instruments. I used Synthesizer patches in Pads and Soundscape. I also used an Arpeggiator patch. I used Soundtrap to make a drum pattern.
Effects in timeline order: Synthesizer/ Soundscape/ Aurora Borealis – the sound of the beginning of something, and I panned left to right to left to center. I EQ’ed Mr. Komai cutting off the highest frequencies. Abstract basketball bounces – I used a Flanger, then Echo plugin. Toy Glockenspiel – the notion of playing basketball as a way of ditching Japanese language school. Game sounds – these sounds had some kids voices that I used for Natalie’s childhood, and I panned left to right. Women’s practice I panned left to right. Arpeggiator/ Synth Bells/ Glistening Bells – gives a feeling of working toward a goal with hope. Arpeggiator/ Synth Bells/ Light Breaks Through – gives a feeling of building on the past. Synthesizer/ Rhythmic/ Shimmering Harmonics – gives a feeling of building on a dream/goal, and I panned left to right. Basketball Crowd Noise – builds gradually to cheers, I doubled a loud buzzer noise, panned them left and right on two tracks and synced it to a buzzer sound, and I panned the crowd noise left to right, and back to center. Synthesizer/ Lead/ Analog Funk – had a nice vintage synth sound that wasn’t too buzzy for the melody. Drum Track – I made it in Soundtrap, added reverb in Logic. Hi Hat pattern – I made it in Soundtrap. Synthesizer/ Pad/ Chrome Cascades – an endnote with some shimmer. For the basketball bounces I used a Logic Echo plugin.
DISCLAIMER: I am not the creator of The Girl and the Cloud video.
It’s use is solely for educational purposes and I receive no monetary compensation.
Story By: Boys and Girls
Directed By: Philip Hunt
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mco9gGHgrps&t=2s
DISCLAIMER: I am not the creator of the Fish is Fish video.
It’s use is solely for educational purposes and I receive no monetary compensation.
Fish is Fish book: Illustrated and written by Leo Lionni
https://www.leolionni.com/
Fish is Fish video: directed by Guilio Gianini
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NQRCoez6M8
DISCLAIMER: I am not the creator of the Fish is Fish video.
It’s use is solely for educational purposes and I receive no monetary compensation.
Fish is Fish book: Illustrated and written by Leo Lionni
https://www.leolionni.com/
Fish is Fish video: directed by Guilio Gianini
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NQRCoez6M8
Hal is scared that Dave is going to shut him down and will do anything to stop it. When the drums kick in, I want people to feel like it mirrors Dave’s panic to shut Hal down before Hal kills him. But when the drums start to slow, they realize it mirrors Hal panic, which turns to insanity and desperation.
I used a lot of my lab and midterm sounds made in Reaktor for MUS292, for the control panel sounds at the beginning. I used additive and subtractive synthesis. I recorded the IBM computer playing and singing Daisy Bell on my iPhone from YouTube. I also recorded the film scenes and dialogue from my iphone.
I edited the video in Adobe Premiere and used Adobe Audition to denoise the audio, and eliminated as much original sound as I could. I cut parts of the dialogue and imported them into the Independence sampler, and played them through Abelton on my keyboard at different pitches and lengths.
I used Dave’s breathing to make a granular synthesis sound. I used it as the noise floor/background noise in the second half of the film when he’s in the emergency airlock shutting down Hal.
I made the drum pattern in Soundtrap. I used two bass loops in Soundtrap, and made the third slow bass loop in Soundtrap as a MIDI track.
I used the IBM Daisy Bell recording in the beginning, almost like Hal is relaxing and listening to music. I found out that this is the first recording of a computer singing and Kubrick used it in 2001 for that same reason. At the end, I reversed it, lowered the volume to put it in the background while Hal tried to sing the song for Dave. I wanted it to add to the feeling of something being off.
I imported everything into Pro Tools for the final mix. I chopped up and placed the dialogue samples, the sound effects, and used time stretch and pitch shift towards the end when Hal is begging Dave to stop on the dialogue samples. I had all the dialogue, and sounds in the second part go through D-verb to give a sense of a bigger room.
This took me a long time but I had a lot of fun making it. It used all my skills in audio production and my very beginner skills in music making.
Music by https://www.purple-planet.com/
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SEASON 1 SPOILER ALERT! If you love Cobra Kai and The Karate Kid, you’ll get a kick (haha!) from this video mashup. This TS banger is like Johnny and Daniel’s anthem.
DISCLAIMER: I am not the creator of the Cobra Kai, Karate Kid videos or the Taylor Swift music, it’s use is solely for educational purposes and I receive no monetary compensation.
Cobra Kai on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9D…
Karate Kid on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq9k6…
Cobra Kai on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81002370
https://www.youtube.com/user/taylorswift This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=6Z3QJ4…
DISCLAIMER: I did not create the music. This is solely for educational purposes. I receive no monetary compensation. Daniel Lopatin: https://www.pointnever.com/
Uncut Gems soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-UKfMe7ESDlBfvL4IrFEUWmSwcutCQ00 From the movie Uncut Gems: https://a24films.com/films/uncut-gems
Luchiano Michelini, Frolic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fUGBfJHCY