Electro-acoustic composition - Fragments

My first serious attempt at composing electroacoustically.

Listen here (mp3, 6 minutes, 8.2MB)

"This sketch is composed of scenarios from the soundworld of sleep. It follows the cycle of the Sleeper from a state of conciousness to unconciousness and deep sleep. Along the journey the Listener encounters fragments – states of mind - ranging from inertia to agitation to unease, before the confusing state of mind encountered on awakening."


Mixing fragments in Logic - panning automation all over the shop!

Sound analysis project

Analysing the frequency components of a wasp, and resynthesizing a small wasp army from this analysis - all in a days work in SARC!

Computer programming project - Triad Tutor

We had to create an 'Interactive music-related program' in Processing - an open-source programming language similar to Java, but in baby-form - that made use of what we had already done in tutorials, namely Arrays, Object Orientated Programming and using Processing's library plug-in thingies.





I decided to make a program that teaches kids how to build triads in Music. It requires a knowledge of notes in relation to the keyboard, but apart from that is simple enough.

Click to play the game (Note - contains Java applet. Slow webpage, etc.)

Sound Design for film project

One of my three Winter projects was for Sound Design. We were given a 5 minute clip of Tarkovsky's Mirror and had to create sound effects, ambience etc. I went for a surreal vs. real theme (not sure what that is), and this is what I came up with:

(listen to with headphones or good speakers if poss, and preferably in a darkened room)

Tarkovsky - The Mirror (Sound Design Impression) from Luke Cape on Vimeo.

I used ProTools (we had to), but mostly used SoundHack for convolution and effects - it produces amazing quality sound files - and Audacity for editing. I enjoyed it.