Aural Terrains - Failed to produce

I ran out of time to circuit bend the gameboy as I have no experience on opening the parts of it. I tried to read some tutorials but there were kind of confusing for me but in time I would understand it if there's more time that I can do about it. There were other tutorials on how I should do it but there were parts that I need to get which they doesn't have on the local stores. Also the fact that I'm trying to be careful not to short circuit it or destroy any of the parts is also a hindrance for me as I got not much knowledge on its parts. In the end I didn't do the performance and pass this project.

Aural Terrains - New Concept

As I quickly browse and search for a new concept, I've found something really interesting in my taste which it might be possible to do. I decided to circuit bend a gameboy console and make some different pitches, noise or any kind of sound from it. 

I'm only gonna buy the cheapest one from trademe but it would take me some time to  deliver it as I don't have much time to do this and we got less than a week before the actual performance.

Aural Terrains - The given performance

During the groupings, I wasn't able to come on time. So the day after that, I tried to find a group which I think their concept will be interesting. I will follow their concept and perhaps add some suggestions and ideas for contribution which will fit with their concept. I tried to join one of the group which they are doing a performance. Their concept is about beats and static noises. I get to think that it will be good if I add the sound of the theremin. The only problem is that the days already passed when I decided to join their group and they're already in the middle of practicing. One of them said it would be unfair if I didn't turn up with the practice and just show up at the performance. So we agreed that I would try to finish the theremin in one day but I had a lot of trouble in making it and ended up not joining them anymore. So at that stage I was in a solo performance. I'm gonna try to think on what I need to do on this stage.

Aural Terrains 1st Project

During in one of our exercises we do in the creative field of sound, I was surprised that even just the sound itself can make a masterpiece of its own. At first, which I thought an ordinary sound is different from a piece of music but in fact it doesn't make much difference. In the exercise of hacking an toy/instrument, is one way of creating our own sound and have it possible mix it with the other sound elements that will be either harmonious or disastrous to our hearing. There is no good or bad in making a sound in terms of how we rate it. But each person could have their opinions of how they feel when they hear a sound that's been gathered. 

Gathering and Mixing Noise

When we did this exercise, I thought about gathering as much of sounds as possible without making it. Connor and me didn't think about what we're going to make after we gather all those sounds so we just went exploring and find many random sounds that is quite interesting for us. I find it quite fun when we did it because of those funny sounds that we usually go for. The next day Thomas and Ryan joined us and thought about the theme of the sound that we're going to make. There's some ideas that being thrown in the table and the most votes that we agree on is the food theme. During the process it was really quite fun on how we do the recordings since after we manage to get the sound from the food, we just have to eat it. When the sounds was compiled, we played around for quite some time and manage to do like a crescendo rhythm out of it. And then during the actual performance, it was agreed that there has some technical issues behind it but nevertheless it was good composition.