This week Garrett and I have made quite the progress on our Musique Concrete project. Here is a brief list of things we used to record and the sounds that we captured on and around Fort Ord:

Recording Fort Ord – Electronic Music Experiment

Recording in Logic 9 using 3 microphones:
-Shure Beta 52 large diaphragm dynamic kick drum mic
-Shure Beta 58A small diaphragm dynamic vocal mic
-Shure Beta 57 small diaphragm dynamic instrument mic

Sounds recorded inside the house on Fort Ord:

-Dish Washer

-Dropping Rice/ Sugar on a metal cookie sheet

-Hit cookie sheet with plastic stick

-Scraped cookie sheet with plastic stick

-Foot bumping into the oven

-Vacuum

-Stove Ignition click

-Microwave beep

-Stove Fan

-Garbage Disposal

-Toaster pushed down/release


Sounds recorded inside a 20x50ft cement half-cylinder army barrack out by Monterey Bay.

This tunnel has an awesome natural reverb, ranging 8-10 seconds in length!

-Pigeons hooting/flapping

-Various items thrown on the floor:
-Tile
-Wood
-Bone
-Metal pipe
-Firecracker

-Rusted sheet of metal scraped across the floor
-Footsteps on the floor


After getting the sounds captured in logic, I cut the sounds we wanted and edited them down a sample that could be placed into Ableton Live so we could line up the transient. After getting everything lined up and doing about half of the arranging in Ableton, we moved 18 stereo tracks back over to logic to be further manipulated and effected. Over the past few days I have been doing a ton of arranging/mixing and I cannot wait to show it in class. When I first heard early electronic music in this course, it was hard to make sense of. Now, after creating something like Cage and Shaeffer did back in the day, it is much easier for me to point out types of sounds and the ways they have been effected from their original state.