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Keywords:
Rain (81), OneSweetWorld (19), Transformed (1)
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Description:
OneSweetWorld was walking home cheerfully singing in the rain when out from a dark alley popped the evil Dr. Fourier who kidnapped her, whisking her away to his musical laboratory!
After trying unsuccessfully to clone the sweet singing damsel in distress, he turned in frustration to his transforms and software algorithms and applied them viciously to her sweet voice, hacking, stretching and confining the sounds until he created his own, evil, dark rendition of her sweet song!
Dr. Fourier unleashed his creation upon the world of MacJams touting... "mess with me huh! I'll mess with you! Be transformed... all of you! I will not rest until everyone has suffered the wrath of my equations!"
And so it was. Sweet, OneSweetWorld become more than herself, singing in voices she didn't know she possessed Fourier's transforms rippling up and down her once pure and pristine vocal chords...
Never again would she be clean and pure for Fourier's transformes could not be undone!
(In all seriousness OSW... Your voice is so sweet and pure that to add a sound bed behind it seemed somehow wrong. So I cloned you... make you sing a little higher in places, a little lower in others and created my own girl band... "The raining One Sweet Wonders of the world")
Enjoy folks!
Lyrics:
Rain rain and lots of water!
Hardware:
Intel Mac Mini, OneSweetWorld (um... she might be software!?)...
Software:
LE8, A few programming tricks of my own, sweat.
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riders on the storm &mdash 05/02/08 - 11:42:31 AM
into this world we're born........
Mark, - it's absolutely gorgeous.
It's unusual and inventive and instant and well put together and stands alone.
Excellent work,
John. [ Reply to This ]
John, &mdash 05/02/08 - 11:55:18 AM
Thank you so much. This one took some sweat. Each of the harmonies had to be chopped, fed through a little program I wrote then pieced back into the audio... Add to that that my computer crashed and munched one of the audio files requiring a complete redo...
Arrgh... Anyway your comments are so welcome my friend! [ Reply to This ]
very interesting &mdash 05/02/08 - 11:45:33 AM
Eckleiste &mdash 05/02/08 - 11:57:00 AM
Thank you so very much. It was fun to do although quite a chore... When do we get another rock treat from you? I love your last one!!! [ Reply to This ]
Sweet &mdash 05/02/08 - 11:47:12 AM
Tokai &mdash 05/02/08 - 11:59:03 AM
Thank you so much for the listen. OSW has such a beautiful voice... I'm so jealous of people with the "natural instrument". Hers was a pleasure to work with. [ Reply to This ]
Coming to terms with the coefficient &mdash 05/02/08 - 11:56:06 AM
This is another great way to tailor the infinite series of a capellas from OSW's lips... however, I think you flipped a sine at 3:29, on the 7th-order term of your fourier series, causing a tangential inversion, because the lower-pitch creates a tritone dissonance that sounds quite devilish... or perhaps you meant to do that? OK, enough bad math puns... this is great! Very inventive fun! Nice timing and harmony ideas... and perfectly sparse!
ttfn,
Drakonis [ Reply to This ]
YOU DARE &mdash 05/02/08 - 12:09:50 PM
TO MOCK THE GREAT DR. FOURIER!!! Beware mere mortal Dragon... My transforms can work up on thee as well! Go poof as you typically do and fend not with my creation! It is PERFECTION PERFECTION I SAY... There are NO FLIPPED sines or tangential inversions!!!
Behold... the transform lives!!! HA HAAAA HAHHHHA AHA (cough!) (weeze)... I'm too old for this super villain stuff!
Hey Thanks Drak!!! [ Reply to This ]
Hi my friend &mdash 05/02/08 - 12:14:44 PM
You're cool I was thinking if I should put rain in to my latest post but I did not... I'm very glad you did it... You really have master this one.
D-loaded THX for this... Love that pic too the song and pic fits like 4-10s from me.
Peace, Love & Respect
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Kenta [ Reply to This ]
Awww &mdash 05/02/08 - 12:21:35 PM
Thanks Kenta! I don't have the chops you've got with the musical arrangements and mixing but I certainly have a great master (Skean!) to learn from!
Thanks for the listen my friend! [ Reply to This ]
this is really.... &mdash 05/02/08 - 12:47:17 PM
cool! nice work mark! very interesting take on onesweet's awesome vocal performance. i'm diggin what you've done!
age
-sons of hypnos [ Reply to This ]
Thanks so much age! &mdash 05/02/08 - 01:00:28 PM
OSW has simply put a wonderful voice and it was a pleasure to work with such a pure and beautiful sound. [ Reply to This ]
Rain Rain RMX &mdash 05/02/08 - 12:51:06 PM
Pitchshifting the vocals is a cool idea, and the steady sound of the rain in the background really set off the vocal layers nicely. Very ambient and playful.
However, I felt like the tune stagnated after about a minute. I wanted to hear more development, effecting, harmonic addition . . . something.
I think there's lots of potential in this right now.
-g [ Reply to This ]
Greg &mdash 05/02/08 - 01:03:31 PM
Thanks... I agree... Unfortunately to do what was done was a lot of work. I used a piece of software I wrote (for an entirely different industry) which does FFTs and I was able to filter different waveforms from her voice. So while some are simply pitch shifted, others are harmonics that were again pitch shifted.
I just ran out of sweat!!! [ Reply to This ]
Mark &mdash 05/03/08 - 12:58:06 AM
Please don't take my comment as an attack on your experimental approach. I'm all for going out into the wide musical world and seeing what's out there.
I only intend my "gripes" to be encouragement for those times when you find more sweat.
That you used a wave-form isolating program on an audio track is tricky, but I agree with a comment you made later in this track's comments: it is hard to tell that you singled out harmonics. I wonder if there's a way you could present each harmonic that you pulled out in a very clear way, like a new theme in a piece of classical music?
What is an FFT by the way? You've piqued my curiosity now.
-g
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F.F.T. Noun &mdash 05/03/08 - 10:49:25 AM
FFT is a mathematics acronym, and has to do with a statistical method of determining which pitch to keep, and which pitch to pitch... it stands for Fifty Fifty Transmogrofier, and it uses the two-penny monte carlo sampling method to determine, at each point on a curve, whether to keep or null out the current value. That's my two cents worth.
OK, OK. That's not true. FFT stands for Fast Fourier Transform, which has become a computerized method of quickly separating multiple overlaid waveforms into their individual component frequencies. When you see the spectral analysis waveforms, where it shows in real-time the music from bass to treble, and you can see where the loud bump is at a certain frequency (like in GarageBand 4 visual equalizer), that is using an FFT to separate the music into its spectrum of frequencies and display it in a frequency-separated graph. If you google "FFT" or "Fourier analysis" you will probably get more info than you ever dreamed of. But hopefully the above explanation is sort of accurate and sort of helpful. :-)
ttfn,
Drakonis [ Reply to This ]
Danger: Transmogrifier in use. &mdash 05/03/08 - 01:07:07 PM
Thanks for the definition(s). I'll be more careful around this place now that I know people are using transmogrifiers, fast fourier or otherwise. The last time I saw a transmogrifier used, Calvin turned his clones into a bunch of earthworms. I'm not ready to be an earthworm yet.
-g [ Reply to This ]
wow! &mdash 05/02/08 - 02:37:57 PM
Thank you! &mdash 05/02/08 - 02:58:24 PM
The tedious part was all the cutting, processing and repasting. When I listen I wonder sometimes if the work was really required. I wanted to pluck harmonics from her voice and I'm not sure if I can really tell if they made a difference or not. [ Reply to This ]
I can &mdash 05/02/08 - 03:17:01 PM
see a man with bloodshot eyes,his hair on end, a little foam forming at the corner of his mouth. But what a killer result. Thanks so much Russ [ Reply to This ]
Thank you Russ &mdash 05/02/08 - 04:20:19 PM
Yeah... a little bloodshot and at times frustrated when things didn't quite work out... But hey it come together... different huh!? [ Reply to This ]
Rain Rain &mdash 05/02/08 - 03:20:34 PM
Thank you Karen! &mdash 05/02/08 - 04:23:43 PM
You are always so nice! Angel Convention this is not! But it was quite a bit of work. Thanks for the listen! [ Reply to This ]
Rain Rain &mdash 05/02/08 - 04:37:46 PM
nice arrangment ..good back ground effects ..fits
OSW mood in singin .I enjoyed effects you ve done
with her singing .thnx for sharin !! [ Reply to This ]
Thank you Mr Feter! &mdash 05/02/08 - 04:41:06 PM
You keep &mdash 05/02/08 - 05:12:46 PM
surprising Mark. This is stunning - very clever - and it works so well.
Cheers
Len
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Thank you Mr Gold! &mdash 05/03/08 - 07:06:22 AM
Well I try... I don't have in a portion of the chops of many of the fabs on MJ but hey I'm having fun!!!
Thanks for the listen! [ Reply to This ]
Great! &mdash 05/03/08 - 07:40:31 AM
Simply amazing. I always enjoy your work master! Thanks for sharing. OSW has a real gorgeous vocal!
Take Care
- Yeman A. Al-Rawi [ Reply to This ]
Yeman... &mdash 05/04/08 - 12:10:26 AM
You are too kind. OSW has the tool... I just hammered with it for a while! [ Reply to This ]
not punk? &mdash 05/03/08 - 11:43:59 AM
batten down the hatches we're in for a storm.
pretty weird in the vocal harmonies. but that's what makes it an interesting experiment. [ Reply to This ]
That coming &mdash 05/04/08 - 12:11:46 AM
from the master of strange chord progressions is saying something! Thanks Vic! [ Reply to This ]
Interesting &mdash 05/03/08 - 04:19:55 PM
Wow! Sounds really unique, interesting use of pitch blending to simulate harmony. I really thought it was overdubbed at first. Strangely enough its raining outside right now as I listen... Curious to know if you really recored a storm for this song or if it was a looped sound effect or something. The storm sounds very authentic either way. Good work! [ Reply to This ]
Thanks &mdash 05/04/08 - 12:13:25 AM
No the storm is just looped storms from the textures in either GB or logic... I think I used both. [ Reply to This ]
wow &mdash 05/03/08 - 10:14:31 PM
Thank you &mdash 05/04/08 - 12:14:59 AM
Very cool &mdash 05/03/08 - 10:41:17 PM
Kind of a dark Marvelettes harmony style. Nice job, really enjoyed this, was wondering how approached the piece from an acapella style, nicely done. [ Reply to This ]
Ya it is isn't it... &mdash 05/04/08 - 12:18:44 AM
Well the process was an experiment. I've written software for years that did measurements and waveform filtering for the disk drive industry. I was always curious what would happen is I fed an audio wave through the thing. So I tried it and I liked the effect.
However I'm not sure if the work of stripping a harmonic then pitch shifting it really is all that much different from just pitch shifting the original. Except that the original contains the harmonic whereas the stripped wave is primarily the harmonic...
Anyway it was a ton of work and not something I care to do again soon! But I'm glad you enjoyed it! [ Reply to This ]
Very nice and simple &mdash 05/04/08 - 06:58:53 AM
Its worked very well, the use of the vocals with the effects has produce a nice soothing track. Nice one. [ Reply to This ]
Thank you &mdash 05/07/08 - 08:54:26 AM
As I mentioned above I was curious what this technique would do. I'm not sure if the result was worth the effort but alas... many things in life are that way. I'm glad you enjoyed it however! [ Reply to This ]
awesome job &mdash 05/04/08 - 07:29:37 PM
Wow Mark...you cease to amaze me with all of your NO TALENT.....geez! You are the man my friend. I love what you did to this. Super job! [ Reply to This ]
Ha ha... &mdash 05/07/08 - 08:57:10 AM
Gail... If I had ANY talent I would be working as a pro musician. Well maybe I would. But no... I'm just techno-nerd that can't sing but can sort of play a little music.
Here at MJ I'm surrounded by MEGA-talent... and I hope to learn from it!
And if you ever get the nerve to just sing (no piano) then I can work the transforms on you too my girl! [ Reply to This ]
wow &mdash 05/04/08 - 07:53:17 PM
mark how much work was this man.. pretty inventive stuff here .. impressed am i ... big time [ Reply to This ]
Mr Jack &mdash 05/31/08 - 09:59:44 AM
Rain in the eventide.... &mdash 05/06/08 - 08:31:46 AM
Nice idea to just use the vocals (check my back catalogue; minstrel boy). I love the unpredictability of your harmonies. Very creative.
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Thank you Mr. VicDiesel &mdash 05/31/08 - 10:01:57 AM
~ &mdash 05/09/08 - 10:59:54 AM
Hey Bob! &mdash 05/31/08 - 10:03:22 AM
Thanks for dropping by. I only hope OSW takes a listen sometime <smirk> [ Reply to This ]
Rain Rain. &mdash 05/11/08 - 03:55:49 AM
Its really good Mark. You did a splended job.
Well done.
Your little funny story made me laugh too.
Peace Dee. [ Reply to This ]
Thank you Dee &mdash 05/31/08 - 10:04:58 AM
Crisp and delicious &mdash 05/12/08 - 09:24:37 PM
That is one sweet voice! Mark, you added just the right of digital descant. Unique. Refreshing. Like charged ions in a thunderstorm. Like a face washed clean. [ Reply to This ]
Hello Richard &mdash 05/31/08 - 10:06:19 AM
This means a lot coming from you! Thank you for the wonderful comparisons! [ Reply to This ]
This is &mdash 05/14/08 - 09:57:30 PM
Rain Rain &mdash 05/22/08 - 12:46:09 AM
Absolutely fantastic! Could listen to this all the time. So excellently made. Kudos to you, Love it :-) :-) :-) [ Reply to This ]
Rain, rain. &mdash 05/22/08 - 04:12:48 PM
Hah... &mdash 05/23/08 - 12:54:19 PM
Rain Rain. &mdash 05/29/08 - 09:01:44 AM
This is another brilliant mix and production. Sounds great Mark. You actually seem to be going from strengh to strengh with your muisc skills
as well. You are Amazing yourself. And very talented.
Peace Dee x [ Reply to This ]
MOOOOODY &mdash 05/30/08 - 01:42:20 AM
Wow &mdash 05/30/08 - 05:45:05 PM
This is very cool. What a creative, innovative approach to take! I wouldn't even be able to conceive of this! Love the rain effects. Thinking of adding them to a song I'm working on myself. Just waiting for a storm! Very cool track - great singing, and a wonderful transformation into something very special. Nicely done. Peace. [ Reply to This ]
Very cool approach to OSW's vocals &mdash 05/31/08 - 12:38:33 PM
the subtle harmonies really work and the rain bed plays well with them. Great track. [ Reply to This ]
Really nice piece &mdash 06/05/08 - 05:43:32 AM
Fourier &mdash 06/10/08 - 09:07:11 PM
First off, I think you are way too smart for me. Second, this is brilliantly creative. The work you did extracting harmonics and wave-forms and all that other stuff really paid off. It's a very cool song - great meter and movement. Unexpected harmonies that clearly set a mood. Wonderful work - not too shabby at all Mr. Holbrook. [ Reply to This ]
Great! &mdash 06/27/08 - 01:40:37 PM
This is very creative and I really like this!
Lovely voice performance and great harmonies and I can understand this taking a lot of work!
Excellent!
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Mark, - it's absolutely gorgeous.
It's unusual and inventive and instant and well put together and stands alone.
Excellent work,
John.
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