The End Product of Project 3

I am amazed at how the end product of project 3 turned out. It turned out the way I had imagined it would turn out. It sort of takes the minimalist approach in the creation of art. My theme is Sound, Space and Universal Rhythm. There is rhythm in all aspects of life, from humans to animals to technological creations.

For the project I took a few seconds of the opening sequence of Alicia Key's song - Trying Sleeping with a Broken heart. It was by chance that it sounded like a train rhythmically beating throughout the song. In addition, it incorporated a sort of droning sound. I repeated that beat for the span of 5 minutes.

I also used the G note of the guitar. I strummed the G string only once. It sort of sounded like the dinging of a church bell. I layered the G note repeatedly throughout the beat of Alicia Key's.

I then went to Old Mill station and drove the car under the train bridge and recorded the sound of the train beating on the tracks. I layered those sounds over the beat and G note.

You sort of get this unifying element of all 3 layers to make a sort of psychological sound track. You imagine yourself siting in a train and the strumming of the G note acts like a ticking clock.

I feel that the theory of noise pollution does not take into account culture and the pre-determined roles and ideas of society (pre-conceived notions).

With this project, I emphasized the rhythmic and musical elements of a beating train. It defies the conventional ideologies of what music truly is, the ideas of pleasantness.