So were a few things that I was supposed to post through out the 4 and a bit weeks, but for various reasons never quite made it. Posting audio was a bit difficult although I did set up an account with some site that hosts audio. I'm now going to switch to Soundcloud though.

Rather than trawl through the previous posts inserting them I thought I'd make this new post, very heavy on multimedia.

In the first week, we were to record sounds and post them up on a sound-mapping website called Aporee.org. However I can't get the stupid thing to upload, so here is the sound anyway.

Remuera by -mung-

(update: Oh look, it works now!)

The next thing we did was the composition. There was an individual one and a group one. Here, reposted, is the individual:

1 Week One Individual Compositionƒ by -mung-

And here is the group composition, though just about all credit goes to 2 of the group members who got stuck into it:

2 Week One Group Compositionƒ by -mung-

The following week we learned circuit bending, here are a couple of circuit diagrams of things we built (or could have built):

Here is one of the results, the "Champ" amp:

With this and various other bits and pieces, we were put into groups to do our first performance in front of the class. Here is the video of my groups:

The following week we tried sound drawings. These were scribbles we made using our non- drawing hand, with out eyes closed, while listening to sounds or music. I think perhaps we were supposed to listen to sound, but I listened to a Janes Addiction song (viewer descretion advised for those born in the 1800s or the bible belt)

Here is a picture of one of the drawings:

I'd post the rest but my scanner has been made obsolete by way of drivers, so this pic is taken from the built in iSight webcam.

We were then to let someone else in the class play it back with their "instrument". One of my teammates played mine with a feather duster. This is the result:

Lidy Plays Chris's Comp by -mung-

I also played her composition:

Chris Plays Lidy's comp by -mung-

I don't have a copy of her sound drawing. It was quite different though, water colour paint slooges.

In the fourth week while coming up with our annoying noise performance we mucked around with a composition:

6 Week 3 Rude Awakening Test Compositionƒ by -mung-

Last of all, we did the actual performance. It was a bit of a fizzer compared to our rehearsal but I still like the idea which was conceptually strong and my group who were bright and fun to work with.

Today we had to submit all of our work on CD and DVD along with a written reflective statement. The cutting of the footage took longer than I thought it would (you'd think I'd have learnt) and I wound up staying up all night. I wrote my reflective statement and realised after I'd handed it in that it had gramatical errors. Not bad English, more of the would double ups and equivalents kind.

I did however make my group proud with the DVD cover (unless they were being polite). Our piece being about noise features a layer of gaussian noise over the top of the composite. The DVD Label, we ran into problems getting printed as I didn't know what specs they wanted and it as an after thought, so I supplied a standard pdf. Turns out they wanted a jpeg... wtf. Could have been converted then and there but there were lines out the door because it's that time of the year. I wonder if Print Sprint or whatever they are called get lines. They are the ones that charge $2-5 to read the data from your USB stick - you know where they can stick the USB stick...

This is the cover and disc label (though the disc submitted was just written on with a marker):

And the CD Jacket front cover, which we were supposed to incorporate the sound drawing in:

We also had to hand in our Visual Diary that was to contain "significant development" of this project. Mine didn't really contain much. This is an audio project and short of writing lots of stuff, which I've done in my blog, I really had no need for it on this project. I handed it in regardless.

I notice one small mistake, on the DVD I've called it project 5, but it's really project 6. Oh well.

Now it's on to planning final presentations of this semesters studio work!