俄勒冈大学计算机音乐学术夏令营
University of Oregon Summer Academy of Computer Music

Jitter vs. Offset？

抖动与偏移？

In this morning，I got my first acoustic music course at Oregon of university which is the most beautiful college I never seen!Also, the great atmosphere of study and cutting edge school establishment are extremely impressed. the course is as amazing as this university,although just began the course , I already love it.


Professor Stolet showed us the studio where we are going to spend most of our time in it in two weeks. Jeffrey taught us electroacoustic music uses modern technology to find sounds to make music through recording sample. Recording sample can be very critical, it can directly affect the quality of your music. We recorded few neutral sounds such as coin rolling, human voices and glass, etc. Then we used Peak pro to edit samples that we recorded. The process of editing samples must be very careful. If you don't, you won't have a sound as great as it should be.


I opened my mind after first class and it gave me a lot of new ideas, but there is a kind of ambiguity on the contents of human voice part in the recording. Since Chinese is a kind of language with 5 tones and it sounds very melodic, we have to choose it very carefully to be the recording sample in our piece. Wang Chi recited a poetry that was talking about a men expressed his respect and love to his mother, but i think it is not all right that we ignore the language meaning and just focus the tone of the language. We should have some purposes to use this sample of the poetry that has the same emotion from the works. I know Prof. Stolet is an enthusiasm with Chinese, but i hope he could learn more about Chinese with deeper understanding of the culture. Otherwise, it looks like a culture abusement :)

这个早上，我在俄勒冈大学参加电子音乐的课程，这个学校是我见过风光最美的大学。并且这个学校良好的学习氛围和先进的设备让我印象深刻。这个课程像大学一样精彩，虽然课程刚开始，但是我已经非常感兴趣。

stolet教授，给我们展示了他的工作室，我们将会在未来的两周在这个工作室工作。stolet教我们用现代科技去寻找自己想要的声音去制作音乐，和如何去录制声音。声音的录制是非常严格的，它直接影响音乐的质量。我们录制了几个自然界的声音，像滚动钱币的声音，人声，玻璃的声音等等。然后我们用peak pro 这个软件去编辑我们已经录制的采样，编辑的过程一定要非常的细心，如果不的话，你不会拥有一个足够好的采样声音。

我通过今天的课程开阔了眼界，让我有了很多新的想法，但是在录制人声部分我对人声的内容有一些歧义。我们之所以选择用中国的语言来采样，因为中国话是带有声调的语言，更加旋律化。一位女生朗读了一首游子吟，这首诗讲的是诗人对母爱的感激以及对母亲深深的爱与尊敬。我认为如果只关注这首诗的“旋律”部分而忽略了诗的内容的话是得不偿失的，应该有目的的用这个诗的素材来做符合音乐情感的作品。我知道stolet教授一定非常热爱中文，但是我希望他多多学习中文，更深入的了解中国的文化。

Grain在电子音乐中翻译成粒子合成，并不是直接翻译成“谷粒”。如在农业方面可直接翻译成“谷粒”，在电子音乐中的Grain的意思是每一个像谷粒一样的粒子。