Min Jun Kim- Looking Outwards 11

Video on how they made the song.

For this week’s looking outwards, I decided to write about computer music since last time I wrote about sound art. I was particularly interested in the combining computer generated sounds with vocal music, and an artist that I like had a video on how their music was made. What I admire about this project is only computer instruments used to produce the song. Even though they used samples from a vocal artist, the sample was included to the program instead of keeping them separate. I also admire that with the usage of computer software, one can alter the qualities of the voice, so that one doesn’t need to find a perfect vocal artist, but rather alter the sample to meet the feel of and standards of the song. From an interview, Odesza stated that, “As far as software, we use lots of Native instruments plug-ins, SoundToys, Logic, Ableton, Maschine, and Ozone 5.” So for the algorithms used for the work, they definitely must have used looping algorithms, with algorithms re-organizes parts to match the beat perfectly. This would be achieved probably by using if functions and millies(). Of course, these elements would already be installed in the software that is used, but in a way, computer music production is like programming with already made functions. I think that artist’s artistic sensibilities came into play when all the parts of the music are harmonic and work to add to the song.

Link to work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqoLCvsy8_c
Creator: Odesza, Naomi Wild
Title: Higher Ground
Year of creation:2018