Initiall Idea of final performance

Attaching pizo disc on the throat of seb in terms of pick up the vibration, I add effects like reverb, echo, roll or whatever on to it. Which means I play him as my record. He produce random sound he could make.

Who says music has to be melodical and repetitive?

When all the noise goes harmonious, I think I realize what music communication is, what a real band will do. Each member of the team was maintaining the sound of the little device by their developed unique skills via experimental recording process. When nobody practice the performing before, as long as the sound was playing, they eventually fit in together with rich layers, each level of frequency can be differentiated as bass, mid and treble. It is not as significant difference of traditional music as the noise we imagine initially. I wouldn't even call it as noise, because it just hit the opposite way of traditional music, which feathers non-repetitive, unpredictable, sometimes even uncomfortable sound. I was clicking when my other mates went silence, because it sounds like a complete piece. It was found when my group was recording in the baby changing room, I took the mug with me. What will it sounds like when I swing around my copper disk in the mug? As a lot people doing the same device. How can I make my own skilled, reproducible sound instead of making random sound? That is the way I made my own device as instrument.
This kind of random but reproducible sound can extremely enrich the effect of DJ or other live musician. As they playing with the device, with switched or buttons which can change the value of resistors, the sound can be recorded as sampler while they can be added onto industrial music, even achieve a revolutionary new genre of music.

After presentation

Due to broken down of the laptop, I only got limited time to make my own track, which leads group file been done before my one came up. It's not the traditional way of music in any kind. As a contrast of hi-fi music. It trying to tell us the noise and silence is as important as the music. Thus melody or any rhythm should be avoided. It should produce a multi-layer and non-repetitive piece of track which bring people visual imagination. With deep either nature or industrial sound active people's privilege sense of locating the sound. Where about's the sound coming from. It recorded the noise we usually ignored. People have to sit down and listen. "how come I never notice that sound? That sound can be loop like that." At the end of presentation, I realized that I was restricted by music format too much, when I making the sound track, I always search the melody first, and loop them. It start rhythm which should be avoided.

The sound uploaded to soundcloud

individual sound
http://soundcloud.com/flicker09/very-first-experimental-track
group sound
http://soundcloud.com/flicker09/field-recording-group-soundtrack
other sound source
http://soundcloud.com/flicker09/toilet-flash-sound
http://soundcloud.com/flicker09/ste-000
http://soundcloud.com/flicker09/noise
http://soundcloud.com/flicker09/ste-004
http://soundcloud.com/flicker09/beach-sound

The first day recording

It's like a extend ear, more than ten times sensitive than my ear. I could hear finger rubbing the surface. People talk in the library sounds shouting. The first day, we just test how the sound track goes, from studio to the library, ASB bank and come back.
When we walked down to most street, the sound of engine and people talking mixed up a constant noise. We want to seek special sound that we've never notice before.

Review of the Sound walk

The sound walk told us to listen the sound we easily ignored during daily life, we are not on listening purpose when went to such place, like car park, food court etc. There are so many amazing sound among the human and nature. The sound walk was a flexible route, it basically just the sound leads us wherever it wants us to go. Charlotte A. got a really good point on this, which covered peoples' eye, everyone walked in a queue, for a reason let people temporarily forgot their vision, instead, pay extra attention to the ambient sound to guess where they were.
The one that interested me the most was part of city council art program, which is a speaker playing constant noise hanging on the tree, sounds like water flowing up. I never find that out, even I walked past there a couple times.
I reckon the sound walk target listening skills that noise and quiet are as valid as music.

Review of Anechoic Chamber

Anechoic room was dead silence. I really can't get used to a place got -2db, as I hear lots of loud music. My ears seems to produce some noise, just like when I went to gigs, the ringing high frequency noise. The room is decorated by spiky sponge, even the ceiling and floor. As what professor of AU test in front of us, which put a speaker inside a box and put different material on top of it, include sponge, glass and wood. Sponge was typically being thought the one will absorb the sound, but the sound still came out after he put on. When the wood was put on, the sound was extremely reduced. I was thinking is that means the sound can go through the sponge, but the volume inside the box was decreased. On the other hand, the wood reflects the sound back, is it increased the volume inside as we couldn't hear from outside. For instance, if we are in a sponge room, could people from outside hear the noise we make inside, or if we are in a echo room, the noise is reflected back in, the volume is relative reduced to outside. Thus if we play constant volume of sound, which one actually got better noise isolation, for inside or outside?

Iphone app- carPark timer

Car park timer is inspired by people around me always got city council tickets, just because of forget to go back the car. It basically created 4 custom buttons, which are the most common parking limit time. It lets user start counting down by one click, thus avoid the textfield input or datepicker input that has to touch multiple times by just select the right time.

It was suppose to have two views, second view is a custom time picker that only generate all the other rare parking time limit. However that is the hardest part to do it for me. I get how to get the picker generating text, but couldn't worked out link the timer with the text respectively. One more issue is that the time instance. The timer runs faster as click different buttons.

I do think I lack of foundation knowledge of C and Objective C. When I looked up iphone SDK forum, there are lots of people help out other people figure what their issue are. Mostly not even give the code, just simply by demonstrate the concept.