The reason why I chose this topic is because I produce music in my spare time, and I'd like to learn more about the technical side of music. For most of my project, I'll be looking more into more complex audio mixing and sound design techniques, but the main goal of this project is to show how much I've improved at producing music by the end of it.
For those who don't already know, sound is produced when something vibrates, which in turn, causes the medium (water, air, etc) around it to vibrate. This travelling vibration is called sound wave (A type of longitudinal wave). Although we can't see sound waves, we can view the properties (here we want to view the time and amplitude) of a sound wave by using an oscilloscope. So the sound wave of a violin would look somewhat like this on an oscilloscope.
As you can see it's rather messy, that is because this wave is a combination of many different frequencies. The most prominent frequency is called the "fundamental frequency" or sometimes simply referred to as the "fundamental" and any other frequencies besides the fundamental are called overtones. Now this is heavily related to what I'm going to do in this project, designing sound, because to create new sounds, one has to understand how sound waves work.
Sound design is something I'm not exactly great at, as I've only been designing sounds for a year and a half (that may seem like a long time, but really sound designing is very time consuming and takes a long time to perfect), and the most I could do are 3-oscillator sounds. Lately, I've been really interested in sound designing, so I saw this as a good opportunity to delve more into this.
I'll be using the internet heavily for my research, as there are tons of articles, videos tutorials regarding sound design, Also I have few books which I bought while I was in Kuala Lumpur. And I'm also in contact with a number of established music producers, so asking for feedback regarding my project should be easy enough.
As some of you already know, I began working on the first track for my project about a month ago (as I mentioned in my introductory presentation, I plan on making 2-3 tracks, about 4-5 minutes long each), because making music takes up a lot of time (about a month minimum at full pace), and school is taking up a lot of that time, I'd imagine it would take about 3 months to finish one track at the current pace of the project.
For my future posts, I'll probably go more into detail about Music Production and Audio Mixing. Hopefully, I'll have enough time (and a new mic) to make a short video about how I go about making these sounds, and talk about the new stuff I've learnt (or developed) while working on this project. Also in these videos I'll be listing out whatever software is being used in the video, just in case anyone of you wanna try start producing music yourself.
Thanks for taking the time to read through my post
and I hope you've learnt a thing or two from it!
- Dareil
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