Footprints in the sand (1I index nos. 1,5,18,19,31)

Hi! We are a group from Class 1I… We are
WE THE MADMEN!
(sorry for the big font… because we are very mad…) To collect the sounds, we used a really cool and huge sound recorder that Dr. Ho lent to us for the recording. We searched every nook and cranny of the RI soundscape for great sounds. For example, we went to the basketball court to record the sounds of the basketball players and the game of basketball. The sound of the basketballs bouncing was like gunshot sounds (boom… boom… boom…) than we proceeded to the RI canteen to record the sounds of the crowd. Even though it was not recess time, there were many students queuing up to eat and eating (enough sounds for us to record as we turned the recorder to its highest sensitivity level). Then, we went to the corner of the canteen with vending machines to record the sounds of the vending machine. You might be thinking that we bought a drink on purpose to create the sound… but we have the integrity to collect real sounds… On our way back to computer lab, we recorded the various footsteps of RIers. Again, I can assure you that we did not record our own footsteps and we also did not go to the toilet to record flushing sounds.
Using the sound we collected, we used a great audio editing program called audacity and I feel all of you should download it. Link: audacity.source-forge.com. (You also do not need a professional recorder; you only need a handphone that can record sounds.) We used audacity to change the pitch and tone of the recording. For example, we slowed or increased the speed of the recording for various parts of the recording in order to achieve the effect of wind. Also, we reversed the sounds because music should not be just about changing pitch and speeds; it needs to be organized and using the reverse effects helps us to achieve that. However, the song would not have been possible without the use of other sounds, such as a sound clip of wind from Zhang Wen, one of our group members. (don’t worry, the whole song isn’t just the sound clip.) We combined the sound clip to make the song have a more windy effect(it will not blow you away…, but it will ‘blow’ you away)

Thank you for taking your time to read this blogpost about our song. We hope you enjoy the song on top…

Matthew (19 1I)
Daniel (5 1I)
Zhang Wen (31 1I)
Lin Qi (18 1I)
Andre (1 1I)