2/18/2014

marsz umarłych (the march of the dead)

For the whole time I've been writing about the sensor project and I didn't really explain how my "marsz umarłych" came to the reality. So let me catch up with this. The story about ice hockey match you already know or if not, scroll down to first posts. Let me mention that from the match i got about 70 recordings, but to my composition I used only four (click to listen):
Then I started looking for a software were I could work on these sounds according to my needs. After some time of research I found Linux MultiMedia Studio and I'm really pleased with the results. I had to watch a tutorial to learn how make the sounds to fade and merge together, but the rest just came naturally.

I started looking for the right speed, lenght and volume for each sound:
 And the sequences had already been chosen in the timeline:
It was a great fun to play with this program and especially with the sounds, 'cause my target was reached. It doesn't recall an ice hockey match anymore!

marsz umarłych
(click to listen)


2/17/2014

Magic!


© Anna Kleniewska (TalviEnkeli)
Thursday and Friday of the last week were pretty busy, 'cause I wanted to get the code finished. And after fights, long telepathic conversations with the computer, being ripped off my patience at some points I'm happy to announce that the code is DONE! Well, at least version for the computers. Now I'm working on improving it so it'd work with sensors smoothly.

2/04/2014

Mind Blow-up, MADintosh and others presents...

In the very morning, a new program was introduced to our group: Max - visual programing. Thanks to this thing we can program some sensors to work the way we want. Especially for our Radio project! I was the one in the Radio project group that would take care about programing, I don't know why but I got quite into it, especially that I didn't understand it the begining what was going on, but I wanted to understand this magic. And I had my small success, but at first I had had to make a total mess :D Which you can see here:
Next time I turned everything upside-down and it was a pretty much fun, especially that I'm not used to work on Macs. By the way... can't they call programs differently?? We have 3Ds Max Desing, Max, Macs, etc... Oh c'mon? But back to Macs, I mean, what point is in Delete button when you cannot remove files on desktop with it? Or how to say "control-Z" in Macs language while you don't really use Ctrl to undo things? But it's pretty fun to experience the other system, especially with Finnish keyboard :D It has still its secrets before me and feels like it doesn't like me too much, thinking hours what should be after 101, humm, well.. maybe 102? But perhaps my blame, I just wanted to try so many other things, but the computer couldn't bear me anymore! And fix what should be fixed, but another time :) What's left is the copy-paste formulae for songs, like 80 times and fixing the mistakes to make it work properly!

On my another project, the personal one I tried to play with the sounds of the fan zone from the ice hockey match! I used Linux MultiMedia Studio to edit and combine the sounds. The composition is named March of the Dead at least for now, because you can really hear like ghosts passing by howling and moaning. Sounds like a track to a horror game a bit, still some things to work on there! Scarrryy.... Nothing like fan zone! When I imagine a real fan zone howling like this I always laugh xD