THE SOJOURNER FALSE

So aptly named because that it what I envisioned when listening to my final playthrough.  I'll put my other sound projects up...whenever I finish them in my free time.  Audacity, while great, is starting to look very limited.  If anyone has demos of other programs please let me know.

Thanks,

Zakk

http://www.public.asu.edu/~zsnader

How dare you all degrade your projects.  I am ashamed to be in your company.  Seriously, do not say that bullshit when we do our gallery, of which I have not started my work, because I WILL proclaim myself separately.  If your making something unique and in your own right, blood, and vein...don't knock it down.  Have some confidence and man up.  Please.  Don't make everyone look bad by making yourself look bad TO YOURSELF BECAUSE OF YOURSELF.  There is no reason for it.  If you really think your work sucks...than either deal with it or suck it up.  Everyone else in our class is going to enjoy it for what it is, because we are all going through the same experiences.  I'm sorry to be harsh, but it's getting annoying that no one has any confidence in what they are doing.

I hated Illustrator, it was a new experience for me, and yes I complained about the program, but at NO TIME did I say my work was lacking...merely that it was harder to convey my concept.  Self degrading?  No.  True?  Yes.  That does not make something bad.  If you think so, than stop making creative productions, because we don't want to be involved in something if you personally aren't.  If you at any time would like to be a professional, have confidence.  Otherwise, you will end up as a guy/girl living in a Mill backalley waiting for Malt Money every Friday night.

That being said, I would like to discuss the project that we all worked on.

I thought it was AWESOME!  If you say otherwise, don't talk to me.  This project was fun as hell, and really challenged my representation of sound.  I'm sad to say that it was really difficult for me to find the right beats and tunes, and I had multiple projects going (Four to be exact, some of them in class on my Mac Partition [ed. - Wish that was backwards compatible, would've saved me time and added to my work] and some at home), including that I got sick on Wednesday and had to continue without the use of a microphone and MP3 conversion ability (yeah, it can be helped to mix your tracks - layering is complex though).  So anywho...the one I ended up with is kind of a mash of a whole bunch of different stuff I was working on, more in the Experimental House vein without having a real chorus or structure (I did this purposely, I know I will get marked off for it.  I plan on doing a ton of these sound projects, they're fun as hell).  Yes, it would have been nice to have had my other projects and to be able to mix PC and Mac partitions, but until the government owns all companies that make a profit I'm probably SOL.  Unfortunately, my laptop isn't converting to MP3 and I still don't have an ASU site, although I'm going to once again work on both after I'm done posting this; So for now, my project is in Peter's inbox as an Audacity file.  But I hope you enjoy the crazy randomness.

Essentially, I only had  a couple mic tracks that I recorded before it stopped working and a beep that I messed with A TON.

One of the voice tracks says COMMON SENSE and the other says FATHERS BOMBS.  What I did was actually record myself saying phrases backwards in their correct word order...and it sounded awesome.  I still think it sounds f'in sweet.  I sounded each syllable out, wrote it down, than said it in a way where I either could or couldn't reverse it to have it make sense.  Cool right?  The whole phrase for FATHERS BOMBS was "Bombs Make Good Allah".  I don't know why I picked that.  Random, I guess.  The COMMON SENSE one was something like "The Common Sense of our Fathers is not so Common."  A little cliche, but if you think so, fuck you.  Haha no but really these were just things that popped into my head.  The ribbit sound...jesus I don't even remember how I got that.  I love the beat, I'm going to go back and completely revamp this thing when I get the chance.

DON'T HATE YOUR WORK, LOVE IT, EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE DOES.  There is never a best, only better.  For if you reach the best, you will never be able to improve.  Enjoy.

So, lucky me, I just realized that I had to save my Mac Sound Project to the Mac Partition an can't open it on the PC.  Lame.  Anyone know a way around this?  Otherwise I'll just do two separate projects.