Sound Design Post 5

This week is RAG week. (Raising And Giving), but it has seemed to loose that meaning in Irish Society. The 'RAG' starts to stand for, "Let's get and drunk/high as possible" nowadays. But I'm not complaining, (at least not until the next morning), there reason why I brought this up is because when I went to all the house parties, there seems to be a generic staple in music nowadays where the most played and most popular tend to send the same, are at the same tempo, and repeat the same line of lyrics that were said from the beginning. Now, I understand that this style of music is highly appealing in nightclubs because when the song never has a bridge (a chill down moment in a song that usually takes place after 2 verses & 2 chorus', which then lead into another chorus), that leads the audience to keep dancing. Sure there is a build up moment where the audience waits for the beat to drop, but that creates the opposite of a chill out. It instead creates a really tense atmosphere where the audience feel more relieved after the beat drops. The problem I have with this music is that nowadays it's everywhere, all of the time and feels like I'm listening to the same song on repeat. Not  just in house parties, but gyms, swimming pools, trampoline parks, etc.
People use the expression "shit music". I don't believe in bad music. That's like saying Liverpool is shit and Man City is the best. It's always just sticking with the majority / minority. Why not have it all? I think all music is good, as long as it was mad to be good and has a constant rhythm (the only exception to this is the geniously made, but horribly sounding 'Piano Quartet by Gerald Barry *shivers/cringes*). However when a song is overplayed, it gets to a point where it is unbearable. My best example is 'Let it Go' from the Disney Animation "FROZEN". Let it go is one of the best songs made by Disney and the Video that went along with it was just stunning. However it has gotten to a point where it has been so overplayed that you can't help but go like "ARGH!!" every time you hear someone sing it.

Sound Design Post 4

This week in class, we were instructed that it's about time that we should be making sounds for our interactive website. There has to be eight sound, all of which have to be different from the other whilst still maintaining the theme of the website. However the problem with them is that the sounds for the website are due very soon, however the website, the film the interactive website is based on, etc, etc are nowhere near completion. This is making everyone nervous because we have to think ahead of what we may need, which is difficult since no one is quite sure how they will do everything. Even right now the films are only finishing shooting and are now moving on the the editing process, which happens to be my favourite.

In class I was having difficulty creating sounds. Mostly because I was confused by how we were supposed to go about it but also because I was unsure how to create short sounds and tones using waveforms. My lecturer guided me through the whole process and now I finally feel like I am capable of creating the 8 sounds. It doesn't actually seem like it would take that long. It's moreso the idea of all the work we have to go through by the end of the semester is just clouding the near future of taking one thing at a time.