CC1 - Project - Musique Concréte

The CC project this semester is to compose a music based on the idea of musique concrete. I decided to compose a fairly simple piece. This piece is based on the French baroque overture form with slow-fast-slow (contrary to the Italian fast-slow-fast overture). But because of the length allowed, I only did the condensed overture, with slow and fast (although the end is slightly slow because of the nature of the music).

The first section utilises drones (produced by a washing machine) and short and snappy sounds. It is in itself binary in the forum (A-BA'). The fugal section of the overture (the fast section) is actually canonic. Using a stereo recorded foosball match, the stereo left and right are separated into two files and their entries are canonic.

The B section builds up as there are more and more sound and it also calms down as less and less sound are heard (as they have already completed their cycle as some hasn't).

I did not do much sound editing because I wanted it to sound more natural. A section is edited more with delays and time stretch and EQ-ing. But B section is almost not edited at all to give the natural foosball sound.

Documentations. French Overture - Sound file. Score.