For this week's assignment I partnered up with Tinrey Wang and we both had a
brainstorming session over zoom on what we want to do in our sound composition.
Tinrey told me about his VR class and how much he is passionate about it. I shared with him some memory that I have from a headphones party that I participated in, a year ago in TLV.
In the party, they used 8D songs that was mind-blowing. It felt like the party is inside my head and the music spins all around so you can track from which side you hear it, kind of like 360 degrees spinning. Both me and Tinery heard some 8D songs in Youtube to get inspired:
We though maybe we can create our own 8D affect in the P5 by using the horizontal and vertical movement to a preloaded song. Unfortunately, it was really hard and we realized that maybe we need to use another library of sound in the P5.
Our second idea was to try to manipulate our song with the mic, so you will have the 8D affect with your headphones but you can also recorded things on top of it and make them looping. Tinery mentioned one of the sketches Mimi showed us: https://editor.p5js.org/icm4.0/sketches/8-VXVgaJO.
We downloaded a free song online and made it 8D in this website: https://audioalter.com/8d-audio/. We open it in our sketch:
function preload(){
song1 = loadSound('8D.mp3');
}Then we use the mic on 3 stages that will activate with the keyboard, the first is the recording, the second to stop the recording and the third is the looping.
let state = 3;
function keyPressed() {
state++;
state %= 3;
if (state == 1) {
sound = new p5.SoundFile();
recorder.record(sound);
} else if (state == 2) {
recorder.stop();
} else {
sound.loop();
}
}
We had a lot of fun recording this over zoom, we used some instruments in the background to add a small sounds to it. Unfortunately, the recording can not catch the 8D affect so I will recommend to try it on your own: https://editor.p5js.org/Llio2493/sketches/vxtqKoG3e.
This our final recording:
We choose this words to describe our piece:
Spatial, Beats, Loop, 8 dimension, 360 degrees, Eco.
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