Dark Symphony

 

I never thought I would enjoy programming sound, but I have learned to love Csound.� I have always been inspired by Beethoven.� I used to listen to Beethoven to calm me down before an exam.� Since I have relied on Beethoven to help me focus, calm my demeanour I found it fitting to compose a Csound song based on his work. �The structure of my Fur Elise composition is divided into measures, about 18 different in all.� I used chapter 1 in Csound to give me the frequencies of all the middle notes on a keyboard (A-G).� With this frequency information I would continually double, or half frequencies as necessary to attain the correct octave of a particular note on the keyboard.� With all the notes defined to � 3 Octaves I began to transpose each note, one note at a time.� After the transposition of Fur Elise was complete, I added some background screams and an eerie granular instrument making the composition darker. At the end of the composition I added a delayed scream to really wake up people who are sleeping through my composition.� This instrument I invented was a simple pluck instrument intended to simulate a dark old piano (please refer to data flow diagram).� I also invented a granular instrument that creates and eerie silent night time mood (please refer to data flow diagram).� This sound clips were originally .wav files, and I converted them to .aif files using Adobe Audition.� I found this sound clips used for the LOSCIL on http://www.flashkit.com .�

 

 

����������� Here are some Links to my files:

 

����������������������� My composition

����������������������� Dark Laugh 1

����������������������� Dark Laugh 2

����������������������� Dark Laugh 3

����������������������� Under Tone

 

����������� Hope you enjoy it.

 

����������� Justin Kalicharan, 2005