Regina Collecchia

MUS 220A - HW5 - FFT Tracker

Contents

Sounds produced by FFT and amplitude tracking of input sound files, scored according to a nature soundfile (nature-16.wav).

Score

A sketch of the score I produced from the nature sound file. Each track is named for the ChucK instrument I ended up using. Ableton screenshot (with track volume envelopes) shown.

Figure 1: Score

Figure 2: Ableton Live Set used to put all the tracks together.

Files

ChucK

• multiTrackers.ck
• myAmplitudeFrequencyTrackerDrums.ck
• myAmplitudeFrequencyTracker.ck
• myAmplitudeSpectrumTrackerDrums.ck - not totally sure if I actually used this one :)

Output sound files

• hw5-final.wav - final stereo mixdown
• free_1.wav
• free_2.wav
• rhythm_1.wav
• rhythm_2.wav
• scored_1.wav
• scored_2.wav

Input sound files

• lamaze-toys-1.wav - recording from a toy store in Palo Alto, squishing some "Lamaze" toys that make this nice crinkly sound
• lamaze-toys-2.wav - a second recording of the above
• dnb.wav - excerpt from "Hold It" by Mark System feat. Youngman
• bird-drums.wav - drum stem from the masters of "And Your Bird Can Sing" by The Beatles