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Introduction
What comes to your mind if you think about 'alchemy'?
- Trying to make gold.
- Did this succeed?
- What did succeed?
Let's say you have a dream and you want to realize it. This does not always succeed. But while trying, you may find surprises, things you never
thought about!
What will we do as musical alchemists? We will enter the musical laboratory of sounds and try to mix musical gold.
If we won't succeed, we might find other mixes that are still worth listening to. And - who knows :-) ...
The Plan
We as musical alchemists need to learn first about the musical chemistry, its elements and materials before mixing them:
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Collecting: Of what does music consist?
We collect the main ingredients we want to boil (looking into style).
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Shaping: How is music built?
We prepare the material and put it into the glass tube (looking into form).
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Heating: How does musical material function?
We put fire under the glass tube (looking into the sound material).
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Vaporizing: What is fixed and fluid material?
We make the material fluid (looking into atomic grids, releasing sounds).
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Mixing: When sounds are a good fit?
We shake the glass tube with the fluids (looking into new sound scapes).
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Pouring Out: Creating a sound trip and sending it away…
We turn the tube and let the result stream out (looking into new musical shapes).
Now let's put fire under the glasses and make some hot mixes that we will present in the end of the course in a little concert.
Have a look!
Have a look into the laboratory, and become a member of the
Music Alchemy Club
to share your mixes with other alchemists!
- Look into the
Course Outline
and listen to a lots of musical examples.
- Those
Worksheets
will help you to track the progress of your experiments
(print version).
- Visit
The Sound Surf Beach
to make your first Sound Trips and share them with your friends.
- Learn more about
Freesound Music
browsing through the whole portal with a lots of music, ideas, and other Freesound Music projects.
(recent version).
- Meet friends at
The Freesound Project
site, called "Freesounders", which share their own sounds with everyone who is interested to know and use new and interesting sounds.
- Edit your own mixes with powerful sound editing software, like
Goldwave,
and upload your final sound files to your Music Alchemy Club home page.
Want to listen to the Music Alchemists Concert? - Here we go!
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