COSC 4P98: 2012
HOLLOW Ting Ting Tong Ting Ting Tong

Final Composition

hollow_tingtingtongtingtingtong.wav

The story

I created my composition entirely in CSound using 5 instruments -

Instrument 1

Modified from:
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/csound/instruments/simple_drum.html
Uses pluck to create a drum like sound which gives a sense of rhythm to my composition

Instrument 2

This is my own custom created instrument where I passed the output of oscil opcode into another oscil and then again through another oscil opcode. The frequency is set to 440Hz and the amplitude is 10000 amps. Passing the output of one oscil into another and then another creates a weird wobbling pattern.

Instrument 3

The idea of this robot instrument is from:
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/csound/instruments/robot.html
Basically it uses randh, linsey passes the output through the oscil opcode to crete a robot/video game sound which runs in the background.

Instrument 4

This is the flopper which loops through the 5 second input audio wav file - this is extracted from the music for "Mirror's edge" game - Still Alive by Lisa Miskovsky. She is smoking hot and her voice is nice too ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xyCOE8fNQ

Instrument 5

Modified from:
http://www.csounds.com/manualOLPC/granule.html
This instrument creates several grains from the audio file. The amplitude, frequency, pitch, grain size etc are all adjusted using the linseg function.

How all the above are combined together are shown in the following flow diagram:

The overall composition utilizing all the above instrument has a scary hollow like background which you would hear in a dark gothic environment where I would absolutely not wanna be in. The drum sounds like crickets in a jungle at night. The ting ting tong adds a bit of happiness to the composition.

HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY MUSIC! :-D