Phat Beats

So we turned in our beats today. I really enjoyed the process of making my beats. I thought it was fun to go through songs and sound clips, trying to identify and isolate single percussive hits of sound that could be used to make something rhythmic. It was also fun to distort these sounds then to a state that was unrecognizeable to those who were unaware of its original sound.

Here are my notes for the beats I created. I will update later with the beats and my composition as linked files:

Beat 1 - Acoustic Guitar, lowered pitch, added whammy and inverted sound
Beat 2 - second half of guncock, made the noise wet and deep
Beat 3 - a human kiss, shortened the noise, raised the pitch, reversed the sound
beat 4 - a tennis racket, shortened to only the first hit, then slowed down
beat 5 - clipped the first half second of a plane talking off
beat 6 - took a slow digital beat, sped it up and lowered the pitch - from "too long" by daft punk
beat 7 - heavily produced electric guitar, isolated the reverb and reversed it to make a growing noise, instead of falling
beat 8 - took a heavily produced drum hit and isolated it without the reverb, raised the pitch until it sounded only like the produced sound - from "holiday inn" by chingy
beat 9 - took a clapping sound from a song, and increased the reverb and the pitch until it was unintelligible as being organic
beat 10 - took a sustained note from "y control" by the yeah,yeah,yeahs and made it into a beat by making it escalate, and then copying and reversing the secondhalf.