Vis 1 Projects

Sergio Delatorre is at fault for allowing me to work in sound for a 2-D practices class. These are the results.

Week 1: Portrait of an Addict

I used nothing but electric guitar into a Pro Tools rig, with mixing in Audition.

The assignment was to respond to self-portraiture. Here, we have me as an addict. I used echoes of Brand New Colony to ground some hope.

Week 2:  Morning Routine

Alex Gomez called this one "Five Guys, Tighty-whities, and a Microphone" (come to think of it, it sounds like a great Beastie Boys lyric). Each of the fellows in 1613 woke up to me standing in my underwear pointing a microphone in their face. I followed them around each around, and came up with this sound collage.

Week 4: Fiona's Dream

This Abstract Dream sequence borrows from the guitar layering I did to compose my own Donnie Darko soundtrack.

Week 10: Maybe it's not

We were asked to use appropriation in this piece. My dad had just emailed me a commercial that I felt was demeaning to women, so I focused on a lot of commercialization focused at women.

Disaster project (never before released!): Parking drums

If there's any project here that is as lame as it sounds, this is it. I wanted to record a car exploring the acoustic space of a parking garage on campus, and I thought I'd revisit the rhythm of Morning Routine. That's Scott Diehl on the djembe playing through the cars' stereo. It sounds like the ocean and capitalism to me. Listen to it in stereo.

Last: The Blank Canvas