Assignment 2: The Idea of Jay St

Part 1: Listen to the following audio collages:

Part 2: Go out and record the sandscape of the Tandon campus and its surrounding area, collecting at 5 minutes of audio, organized either into separate files or a single file. Consider the classification of sounds noted in R Murray Schafer’s text “The Soundscape” (page 139) – what kind of sounds are representative of the Tandon-area soundscape?

Part 3: Design a playback system in Max that creates a generative collage of the sounds you recorded.

Some things to consider when assembling your patch:

  • How are your sounds sequenced? Is there a specific order or is it random?
  • Do sounds overlap each other? If so, how do they sound when they are layered?
  • Do your sounds load automatically?
  • Does your composition have a start and end or does it loop forever?

Upload all your audio and your Max patch into this Google Drive folder before class on February 3rd.