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The Plan: Electroacoustic Piece for Solo Cello and Electronics – will incorporate adc input in combination with effects processing (reverb, echo, addition of chords, alterations in sound intensity). The piece might be titled “The Crane”; I will compose a distant variation of the Korean folk song “Arirang.” 

I intend to use Wekinator and incorporate create crane-like gestures to go along with the piece. Whenever executing the gestures, programmed sounds play back (sound of flying birds, specific cello motives, etc.). Since timing is of importance, gestures will most likely be composed into the piece. Gestures may emulate the Korean traditional crane dance. 


What I have here is my starting code for the audio portion of my project. It involves adc input with reverb and echo effects. 

The WAV file contains snippets of where I plan to take the piece composition-wise. I did a quick take to see how the cello might sound through the code. First, I play the scale that I plan to utilize in the piece – the Yo scale on D (contains pitches D-E-G-A-B). It is a pentatonic scale used in much of Japanese and Asian music. Next, I play the folk song I plan to variate upon – “Arirang” - in its original form. Then, I show a few cello techniques I plan to incorporate within the piece. These include two-finger tremolo harmonics, harmonics crossing all four strings, bow-crossing tremolo on two strings, pizzicatti strum in upwards then downwards motion, ricochet bow, and lastly ponticello.