Chuck Files Used
For the data set, I decided to use Stanford's undergraduate enrollment statistics for the past 11 years, but also add a purpose by incorporating the statistics for Hispanic enrollment. Wanting to highlight how Hispanic enrollment has been changing over the past 11 years, I used it to modify the gain of the other 4 sound forms I created. There is a slight increase in dynamics towards the end of the piece, which reflects how in the past 3 years, there has been an improvement in Hispanic Enrollment.
The base track is selected randomly using the year we are looking at, and whatever key it chooses, we use that key to choose notes from for the 3 other sound forms, which is all defined in the SoundLibrary. Two other sound forms are male and female enrollment statistics, which are staggered in generating sounds based on the numbers for that year (but still within the key). They are a bit more floaty in that the intervals at which they switch notes is slower, but they help carry the piece forward. The third is total enrollment at Stanford, which has a lot more motion (smaller interval) and is featured in the solo.
For a special filtering effect I added a Gain and a Delay to change the tone of the piece. The radius and delay order were interesting to tweak. Sometimes the sound would explode or if the radius was too high it would sound grainy, but I found a spot where it changed the feel of the piece to sound more stressful as enrollment always is.
Terminal command: chuck SoundLibrary.ck Data-Reader.ck:Enrollment.dat