MeatSpace

Most of the Wholesale Meat people were involved in a year 12 subject this year called Music Technology where you can pretty much do anything you want that is either recording or creating music by electronic means. My plan is to try to post everyone’s projects here at some point so we can all listen to each other’s work, but I need to get around to finding copies of everyone’s stuff. I’ll post my stuff for now which includes one song length major project and short minor projects (in a zip file).

Jacob’s Major Project
My major project is a sequenced piece that uses a mix of straight computer sounds, recordings and melodic samples played in a sampler. All the voices were sampled from random AM and FM radio stations on various afternoons. Basically it’s meant to be about when you’re sitting in the car listening to random meaningless stuff on the radio. In a way it’s an irritating noise that distracts you from whatever boring activity is wasting your life away BUT the other side of the story (and the one I prefer) is that it’s also possible to kind of enjoy those pleasant voices when you’re tired and bored and half-conscious. It’s kind of a blissful way to waste time - I’ve grown quite attached to the pleasant old ladies and their waltz around the kitchen. I particularly had fun looping gong samples - I’ve always wanted my own gong so I could do that kind of thing. Tubular Bells would also be rad (while we’re on the subject of instruments I want).

Jacob’s Minor Projects
The minor projects are designed to try and showcase a couple of production techniques within a short excerpt of music.

Jacob