JENNIFER HSU - MUSIC 220A - HOMEWORK 6


Please click on the following link to download my homework 6 binaural wav file.
hw6.wav


Since I already used Stk instruments in the last homework assignment, I decided to add more Stk instruments to this one and experiment with their sounds along with the existing sounds and data from hw5. I also mapped the ramp time for the frequency and amplitude envelopes to the data. One of the instruments I added was the Shakers instrument, as it gives 23 different instrument sounds based on one Stk instrument. I mapped some of the data to choose which of these instruments is played. You can read my code in the binauralCCCC.ck file linked below. Additionally, information on the data and chuck files used are included below.


For this homework, I used data from the Time Series Data Library. I used the following files from this data set:
cig.dat: Can. cigarette consumption/adult, real price and income/adult, 1953-1975. Source: Hipel and Mcleod (1994)
cigb.dat: Biomonthly cigarette consumption per adult in dollars and real price index, 1966 – 1974. Source: Hipel and Mcleod (1994).
caffeine.dat: Caffeine levels in instant coffee (seasonal period=5). Source: Hipel and Mcleod (1994).
coffee.dat: U.S. annual coffee consumption. 1910 – 1970.


For this project (Coffee, Caffeine, Cigarettes and Cigarettes), I wanted to pair up the data from cigarettes, coffee and caffeine. Because caffeine and coffee are stimulants, I mapped that data to sounds that have higher frequencies and seem to move around faster. Cigarettes have a less obvious stimulant property, so I mapped it to a sound that I feel is more grounding and more representative of a nicotine buzz. I felt that it would be interesting to pair up these sounds and hear how the data is different across the four speakers.


The following Chuck files were used to read in the data and map the data to sound: hw5-reader.ck, binauralCCCC.ck.


The following Chuck files were used to convert my files from 4 channels into 2 channels: binaural4.ck, recBinaural.ck.


Please click on the following link to download my homework 6 binaural wav file.
hw6.wav