Audio Mosaic

02/14/2023

Phase 3

Vic

Demo Video:

Reflection:

I struggled with this assignment. Originally when I started I wanted the project to be fun and be entertaining to work with as well as use. This started for me when I used the meme sounds. But after presenting my milestone video I came to the realization that it wasn’t as entertaining to others as it was to me and I felt the need to change my project. I wanted something soothing and lovely now. It’s a complete switch on the head of what I was doing before, but I just felt that the memes while getting some good responses, were not up to the level of satisfaction that I had anticipated. That and listening to that one for too long makes you lose your mind a little bit and the shortness of the clips seemed to be less enjoyable without some form of context. I did not feel that I could give and find accurate visuals for those meme sounds, since they were sound effects, and they have so much awareness of them already. I decided to experiment with a choral sound that I found to be an enjoyable adventure I had from the meme sounds first part. I used the song Sleep, composed by Eric Whitaker and performed by Voices8 on youtube. It is a perfect example of a calming song with no musical background and soothing enjoyable choral features. It turned out alright but could have been better. For the part three portion of the assignment, we were supposed to come up with a musical statement. I tried my hardest to work in some unique features, but I couldn’t get any to really work. I tried adding keyboard inputs, but whenever I used those, they seemed to have no actual effect on the sound, and I wasn’t sure what the issue was. I got the audio inputs to go into the audio files which was a new thing that I didn’t do last week. I also wanted to add sounds to visual effects for chunity, but didn’t give myself enough time to figure out how to solve my already existing struggles as well as integrate any changes into the chunity version of code. One of my biggest struggles for part three was figuring out what to do, and what to add at all. Memes left me in a bit of a dead end, which felt surprising to me since I didn’t feel like it was that way when I started and first worked on it. I had wanted to explore memes since I assumed that's how this technology would be used in the “real world” (by the real world I mean the internet). In the end, I focused on trying a new unique thing and trying to make any progress at all on the project that I seemed to struggle so much on for no particularly clear reason.

Code and usage instructions:

Code here -

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~vlitton/356/hw2/part3.zip

No special instructions for this code.

Sources and acknowledgements:

Video and audio sources were both taken from online compilation videos then downloaded for use here for meme sources. Voices8 choral sounds come from voices8 video on youtube.

Audio Mosaic

02/06/2023

Phase 2

Vic

Brief report:

In phase one I tried several different changes. These changes include, changing the number of coefficients to 13, removing RMS, doubling number of coefficients and number of mel filters (20 => 40 coefficients, and 10 => 20 filters), setting the number of mel filters to 15. Instead of 10 (coeffcients stays at 20), and setting the number of mel filters to 20. Instead of 10. (coeffcients stays at 20). Out of these different versions, there weren’t any major differences, the biggest change in result came from removing RMS, but even that had minimal changes. The biggest result of these tests was giving me a chance to take a closer look at the code and get a better idea of how the code works, which was very helpful to me. In phase 2 I tried a few source sounds, and my favorite by far was the sound that I used for the project.

Demo Video:

Link: https://youtu.be/edqxGOnAvyk

Code and usage instructions:

Code here -

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~vlitton/356/hw2/MemeV2.zip

No special instructions for this code.

Sources and acknowledgements:

Video and audio sources were both taken from online compilation videos then downloaded for use here. I can retrieve the specific links if requested!