COSC 4P98 - Assignment # 2 (CSound)

Rodrigo Neves - 3126828

Background

The CSound composition I created is a recreation of a song from the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack. The song is titled Summer Overture by Clint Mansell. I have always been a big fan of both the movie and the soundtrack and thus drew my inspiration from it.

Process

Each instrument was created separately. The note info was programmed for each instrument and .wav files generated for each. There are 4 instruments which play out the bass and melodie sections of the composition in addition to 1 drum beat. The instruments are a series of oscillators of varying complexities. The beat is a .wav file consisting of 3 drum samples which were imported and their amplitudes and other parameters modified to adjust the sound. All the wave files were then loaded into Adobe Audition and mixed together by repeating the sounds. Multiple tracks were used in order to adjust volumes of the instruments. An mp3 file was generated of the finished composition. I also loaded the finished mp3 composition into Cool Edit and applied a Chorus filter to it to add a sense of atmosphere and fullness to the composition. Links to both are provided below.

1. Dream.mp3
2. Dream (with chorus effect).mp3 (does not like Windows Media Player)
3. Adobe Audition Session File