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 "sendripulsic" - 36.17: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: theholyzero
Equipment: For this project, I utilized my Nord Micro Modular for beat pulses and microscopic melodies... which was sampled and sequenced in FL Studio 4. Computer generated voice was programmed in FL Studio 4 as well. I also used various VSTi DestroyFX for subtle scrambling of emotives. Nord was the primary source of audio.
Comments: This was inspired by all the sci-fi movies and literature of the A.I. oppression that I have exposed myself to... and although I am a huge Dr. Who fan, I wanted to portray the computer/robot as an emotional sentient being that yearns for the same things openly that a socially hermetic human would, in consortium.
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7.00: Originality
6.67: Relevance to Theme
7.67: Sound Design
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7.17: Direction/Showmanship
7.67: Recording Expertise |
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| "VOIF BugOut" - 35.00: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: bdu/brandon daniel
Equipment: ASys integrator, Doepfer, Arp2600, VAZ Modular, Alesis Ineko, Korg Oasys PCI.
Comments: Voice Interface Bug, it seems to be in all modes at once, loveslave, operatic, generic voice interaction, etc, as well as spitting out random phonemes and bleeps.
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6.78: Originality
7.56: Relevance to Theme
7.06: Sound Design
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6.67: Direction/Showmanship
6.94: Recording Expertise |
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| "the cordial robot of atomic power" - 33.50: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: seiss
Equipment: microkorg, toy robot
Comments: these talking robot samples come from a toy robot I received as a gift when I was a child.
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6.41: Originality
6.71: Relevance to Theme
6.76: Sound Design
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6.88: Direction/Showmanship
6.73: Recording Expertise |
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| "Robodrome" - 32.29: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: NoHumans
Equipment: Free demo version of Nord Modular G2, Roland Fantom XR, Roland JD800, SoftVoice speech synthesizer demo version.
Comments: This is how the robots hear us.
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6.11: Originality
7.39: Relevance to Theme
6.22: Sound Design
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6.44: Direction/Showmanship
6.13: Recording Expertise |
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| "FSK" - 30.95: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: Doubtless Sound
Equipment: G2, no samples or ext effects, just realtime record stereo out.
Comments: Automated patch, chaotic scanning of sequencer at audio rates, random band shifted vocoder & stuff
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5.94: Originality
5.35: Relevance to Theme
6.94: Sound Design
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6.12: Direction/Showmanship
6.60: Recording Expertise |
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| "Grande Hysterie" - 30.02: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: Left Eye Dominant
Equipment: Korg MS2000R, Ableton Live 4.1, Reason 2.5, Reason Drumkits, Ohmygod filter, Shure SM58, MOTU 828 MKII, PC
Comments: I asked various people to 'draw' random information into Reason's midi note and controller lanes. This information provided the impetus for the piece
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6.50: Originality
5.25: Relevance to Theme
5.81: Sound Design
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6.19: Direction/Showmanship
6.27: Recording Expertise |
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| "neutrinos" - 29.57: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: seraph
Equipment: Propellerhead Reason 2.5,
Ableton Live 4.1
Emagic Logic Audio 6.4.3
Comments: Everything started with looking at this site: http://maycontainnuts.me.uk/treknobabble/ where I found the following sentence:
"You just need to modulate the flow of neutrinos to the shield generators to force a tachyon burst to the dilithium chystal chamber."
Using http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html I turned that text to speech and then modified it. I then took that file and mangled it beyond recognition as my entry. I hope you enjoy it!
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5.17: Originality
5.56: Relevance to Theme
6.06: Sound Design
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6.56: Direction/Showmanship
6.24: Recording Expertise |
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| "Rovoz Zero" - 29.02: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: ElectroVoz
Equipment: Modcan Osc, VCAs, Dual LFO,
lots of patch cords...
Comments: One shot, one patch performance utilizing FM techniques w/mucho knob tweaking. The final work is the result of finding intresting loops out of the performance, importing them into ACID and creating hopefully an interesting composite.
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5.94: Originality
4.88: Relevance to Theme
6.24: Sound Design
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5.59: Direction/Showmanship
6.38: Recording Expertise |
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| "Even when we're broken, we sing..." - 27.90: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: Direwires
Equipment: -Roland SP-808
-FX processing units
-midi controller
-Reason
Comments: My sampler had a bit of a crash and would not function properly. I was trying to record a female voice to it, but instead all I got was extremely short pieces of the recording, varying from 0.01 to 0.5 of a second in length. Each very similar, but with a slightly different alias and sound to it. I took as many variations as possible into Reason, importing each one into a seperate NN-19 and looped each one.
My mission was clear: I wanted to develop something mechanical yet beautiful. Rather than playing notes on keys, I decided to simply use knobs to build a sort of strange melody out of each recording by way of shifting the octaves and semi-tones in a mechanical and almost in-organic fashion. The resulting collage and colision of these sounds are presented here... demonstrating the beautiful singing voice of a broken machine.
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6.06: Originality
6.50: Relevance to Theme
5.33: Sound Design
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4.67: Direction/Showmanship
5.33: Recording Expertise |
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| "amber14" - 27.05: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: DoubtlessSound
Equipment: Nord Modular G2
Comments: Purely random, no tweeking.
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5.67: Originality
4.13: Relevance to Theme
5.87: Sound Design
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5.60: Direction/Showmanship
5.79: Recording Expertise |
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| "Lydian Song" - 26.74: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: Pugix
Equipment: Blacet Miniwave as quantizer
Blacet EG2070 x2
CGS Analog Shift Register
CGS Burst Generator x2
CGS Infinite Melody
MOTM 101 Noise/S&H
MOTM 120R Suboctave
MOTM 190 VCA x2
MOTM 300 VCO
MOTM 310 VCO x2
MOTM 320R LFO
MOTM 380 LFO
MOTM 390 LFO
MOTM 410 VCF
MOTM 440 VCF
MOTM 490 VCF x2
MOTM 700 switch
MOTM 800 EG x2
MOTM 820 Lag
Oakley Multimix x2
Oakley OMS-410
Oakley Sample & Hold x2
Oakley Little EG x2
Comments: The synthesizer was patched, adjusted, and left to run freely. Then the recorder was turned on for 15 minutes. Nothing was touched or manipulated during recording. All sound originated from the patch in real time. No effects were added either during or after the recording. All I did was to select a few minutes out of the 15 minute segement and add fades to the beginning and end. Recorded with Pro Tools LE v5.1.
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5.50: Originality
4.67: Relevance to Theme
5.56: Sound Design
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5.33: Direction/Showmanship
5.69: Recording Expertise |
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| "answers equal questions" - 26.37: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: theholyzero
Equipment: I utilized the Nord Micro Modular for the beat pulses and microscopic melodies, sampled and sequenced on FL Studio. Computer generated voice programmed on FL Studio as well. I also used some VSTi DestroyFX for subtle manipulation of emotives.
Comments: This was my first out of two songs that I made, and fairly in haste... and I couldn't really figure out an idea for textual content to retain the concept of "Robot", and so I tried to focus on computational logic in a fairly human emotion/ philos translation.
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5.00: Originality
5.60: Relevance to Theme
5.33: Sound Design
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4.83: Direction/Showmanship
5.60: Recording Expertise |
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| "mitk" - 26.29: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: Low Frequency
Equipment: Modcan/Cynthia system featuring the awesome Milton the Monster sequencer and the brutally lovely Twin Wasp filter.
Comments: Whole thing recorded in one 20min improvised run through then edited in sound forge until it became something almost musical.
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4.54: Originality
5.62: Relevance to Theme
5.54: Sound Design
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4.69: Direction/Showmanship
5.91: Recording Expertise |
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| "robot track" - 26.21: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: andrew bunny
Equipment: Hartmann Neuron, Moog Voyager, Analogue Solutions and Wiard modules, Reaktor 4. Recorded in Cubase SE. Edited in Peak LE.
Comments: I thought it would be kind of fun to combine digital+analog+soft synthesizers!
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5.06: Originality
4.47: Relevance to Theme
5.65: Sound Design
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5.24: Direction/Showmanship
5.80: Recording Expertise |
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| "The Waldorf Singers" - 25.24: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: copepod
Equipment: Waldorf MWXTII.
Comments: Done as a programming and live performance experiment to familiarize myself with the XT. Recorded/improvised live to 2 track with no fx, MSG, or mirrors.
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4.76: Originality
6.06: Relevance to Theme
4.89: Sound Design
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4.33: Direction/Showmanship
5.20: Recording Expertise |
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| "Aviatrics" - 25.18: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: deadpics
Equipment: Doepfer modular (w/ digital noise source and vocoder), Blacet modular (lfo and Filthy Filter), Moogerfoogers (ring mod & phaser), Delay pedal
Comments: I was messing around with my digital noise source, my vocoder, and some strange lfo waves and this is what I produced.
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5.06: Originality
5.29: Relevance to Theme
4.76: Sound Design
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5.00: Direction/Showmanship
5.07: Recording Expertise |
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| "Lullabotbaby" - 25.13: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: paradigmshiftbeats
Equipment: Serge, Modcan, Cyndustries Modular
Comments: A quick composition that calmed our sleepy young son. Robot vox courtesy of Serge Dual Phasers and the Modcan Super Delay. Pitch and formants controlled by Serge TKB and Cyndustries UEG. Variable slope filter makes a late appearance as well. Recorded via Nuendo, one take to single stereo track.
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4.93: Originality
5.63: Relevance to Theme
4.81: Sound Design
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4.53: Direction/Showmanship
5.23: Recording Expertise |
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| "Bugbot's Wedding" - 24.16: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: Babaluma
Equipment: Blacet Modular
MoogerFooger Filter
Wiard Noise Ring
Wiard Joystick
AudioMulch
Comments: The main component is a variation on a patch in Allen Strange's book "Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls" (Second Edition, page 85) in which a source of uncertainty is fed back upon itself in numerous ways, and also controls many other parameters. I adapted this patch for use with the Wiard Noise Ring. The high frequency wide stereo component is an FM patch manually controlled by Joystick and Noise Ring. The component which enters near the end of the piece is another variation upon the main component. 1) Masculine component, the ground. 2) Feminine component, wraps itself sinuously around the masculine. 3) The union of the two results in the birth of the final component.
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4.12: Originality
3.94: Relevance to Theme
5.35: Sound Design
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4.81: Direction/Showmanship
5.93: Recording Expertise |
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| "Random Words" - 24.03: TOTAL SCORE |
Composer: Arron Clague
Equipment: Propellerheads Reason 2.5
Comments: Quasi-Random sample playback, vocoder and re-cirulating feedback loops.
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4.28: Originality
6.44: Relevance to Theme
4.67: Sound Design
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3.83: Direction/Showmanship
4.81: Recording Expertise |
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