1 / 8

Wind Instrument Making Workshop with Prof. Lydia Ayers

Explore music lab activities by creating flutes and trumpets from bottles, recording your sounds, preparing samples, and working on compositions. Dive into the world of wind instruments and unleash your creativity!

wattsp
Download Presentation

Wind Instrument Making Workshop with Prof. Lydia Ayers

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Exploring Music Lab 4 by Prof. Lydia Ayers

  2. Objectives • Make wind instruments using various types of bottles • Flutes • Trumpets • Balloons • Record samples of your sounds • Work on your composition

  3. Make Flutes from Bottles • Blow across the opening of the bottle to get a flute sound • Pour some water into the bottle to change the pitch • Create a pan-pipe instrument by using three or more bottles with different amounts of water • Experiment with the bottles to create a melody using high, medium and low sounds • You can work with a partner if you want to have more pitches

  4. Make Trumpets from Bottles • Cut the end off one of the bottles • Buzz your lips into the opening of the bottle to get a trumpet sound • You can get different pitches by making the bottles larger or smaller • Experiment with the bottles to create a melody using high, medium and low sounds • You can work with a partner if you want to have more pitches

  5. Record Samples • Record samples of your wind sounds using the SoundEditor, as you did last week. • Record some flute sounds • Record some double reed sounds • Record some trumpet sounds • Keep the best sounds for next week • You should keep at least one sound from each type

  6. Prepare the Sounds • Clean up the sounds using CoolEdit, as you did last week. • Convert your .wav file to 22050 sampling rate. • All the .wav files must use the same sampling rate • Convert your .wav file to mono. • This exercise will be easier if all your sample files are mono • Make sure you have only one sound in each file. • Get rid of any unnecessary noise at the beginning and the end of each sound.

  7. Cover the Hole with a Balloon • Cover the hole tightly with a balloon • Use rubber bands to hold it on • Blow across the other end like a flute • Press lightly with your finger on the balloon to change the pitch • Record some tones and prepare and save the best ones double balloon flute big membrane flute

  8. Work on Your Composition • If you have extra time, you can try using some of your new sounds in your composition • Listen to your composition and change anything that you want to improve • You may want to repeat it with some variation

More Related