Project 4: Final

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For this project, I wanted to look into the idea of random or rather what is and isn't random. To start with I asked all my friends to tell me what song(s) enter their head randomly durring the day. I got a number of songs and more than a few comments about the quality of the songs. I then took all of the songs and put them into a single file folder. After this I used Audacity, randomly selecting songs, cutting them up, and mixing them together linerally.

After this I spent the next week just listening to my friends and taking notes when ever they would say something randomly. Using this, I then found pictures, clips, or just plain wrote out the words. I did this independently of the music so that I wouldn't try to link up the two.

From this I noticed some interesting things. Many of the songs naturally flow into one another making the music almost seamless. The best place to point this out is when a song by Cascada goes into a song by O-Zone and it seems natural. There are also points where the song and video link up. The best place this is found is when 'Frank Sinatra' turns into 'I Set My Friends On Fire' which is a scremo band and at the same time a picture of the iconic scene from Red Dawn appears.

Sitting back and looking at this brings about the question, what is random? Or maybe even better, can randomness exist? Even with out a pattern in mind, a pattern still arises. Is it possible that subconsciously I remembered the song and made the movie to match? Honestly I can't really answer any of these questions, they just made me think.