#and changed all my computer noises to Monty Python sound effects

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I don't know why I was even slightly surprised to see that there are Monty Python fandom accounts on here. Of course there are.

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Space Ghost Coast to Coast #86: “Idlewild South” | December 14, 2003 - 11:30 PM | S08E05

In “Idlewild South” Space Ghost is peer-pressured into drinking tall boys with Moltar and Zorak. He gets rip-roaring toasted and makes a fucking FOOL of himself in front of television’s Jeff Probst, the then-host (still? host?) of Survivor. Jeff is bemused by the proceedings and is eventually browbeaten into saying he loves Space Ghost. This one’s pretty Flipmode-esque, in that everything goes off the rails pretty spectacularly, leading to a real good ending. Boy, that show could really end well.

This one gets a few points deducted for using a particular barfing sound effect for when Space Ghost hurls. When I was a kid I enjoyed a computer game entitled “Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time”. As a bonus the game included a soundboard of naughty body noises, and to this day I hear those same sound effects pop up in shows here and there. It takes me out of whatever I’m watching. Sorry Space Ghost. It’s kinda not your fault. But you should have made George Lowe actually barf for that part. Tell him he’s been named in a class-action suit and he has to give back all his cameo money.

There’s some funny animation bits; some of which includes brand new animation and some of which that only uses preexisting movements, and is a stretch. Space Ghost on drums is particularly flagrant, but it’s really funny. But him doing the robot is so beautiful. It would make Hayao Miyazaki weep.

I like this one a lot, but I struggle to find things to say about it. Last go-round I was very brief. So I tried to beef-up my prose by seeking out other sources I could riff on. The spectacularly shitty Space Ghost Coast to Coast wiki offered the following fun facts:

This episode stands alone as most fans favorite episodes.

Huh. Okay. I’ll take your word on that.

This is creator Mike Lazzo's favorite episode.

Believable! I guess.

This episode includes host of Survivor Jeff Probst. Before the show even got very big!

MAIL BAG

Mona Simpson died right? Why did they do that?

Yeah! They did an ultimate rudeness and had her pass away in like, a season 18 episode or something. Really rotten stuff.

you don't think scott evil himself is a worthy adversary for space ghost? "how about no" lol

He probably just talked about G.I. Joes the whole time. He can’t stop thinking about those little guys and how you could twist them around. Awful little man. That’s all there is to say. What else is there to say?

Please change the name of the mail bag to NASTY QUACKS. the nastier, the better if you ask me.

Um, let’s see if I do that (rolling eyes very performatively)...

[cynicalharmonia]

Final - Is This Sound Art?

My final is called “Is this sound art?”

It is a collage that combines many concepts that we learned of in class. From John Cage’s take on sound, noise, and silence to the late 20th century masters of sampling all the way to the modern day vaporwave and glitch art scene.

I was influenced by dirt style, vaporwave, plunderphonics, Ryoji Ikeda, glitch music and art, acousmatics, Christian Marclay, James Tenney, Hugo ball, Amacher, and the internet as a whole. The visual (skit) format was influenced by Forcefield and early Fluxus performances.

My Piece very much has a lot to do with comedy and internet/digital culture. I wanted to make something that peeked back at my life so far and all the things I enjoyed growing up with (and still do today). The video is done in skits, sort of like a “Robot Chicken” of sound art. It is called “Is This Sound Art?” because I have a sense of humor and mainly because that is a very thing I questioned myself with while making this piece. It starts with me receiving a VHS that contains a collection of my past, told through various things I’ve enjoyed throughout my life, like video games, music, internet memes, anime, tv, and movies. It begins and ends with the tape, and the video in which I am watching begins and ends with heavy distortion. I very much enjoyed working with both Premier Pro and Adobe Audition to create this project; I learned many new skills and hope to improve my editing prowess in the future. 

When creating the sound pieces, I later introduced gifs and stills that complimented what was going on, later I incorporated clips from movies and eventually one thing led to another and I was simultaneously making sound art and videos that were edited around the sounds. Through responding to one thing the other came along shortly. Most (if not all) the videos used are replaceable with other clips or stills if edited properly. The sounds created gave me a vision of the visual aspects that would better portray the very impact of what I intended the sounds to have in the first place.

I will post images of my project panel to help show the actual process involved in creating this piece. 

Process:

One of the thing I didn’t get to go over in detail in class was the process and the lengths in which I went to to find fitting video clips to match my sound sample pieces. 

Note: 95% of the video clips used did not retain any of their original material in terms of sound or were edited/transposed with other sounds!!! 

(a perfect example of this is found at the 1:44-1:45 min mark in my video, in which you see an M40A3 sniper from CoD4 go off and seemingly hear the sound of a gunshot to go with it. This is in fact not at all the sound you are hearing (or a gunshot noise at all!), instead, I used a section of the recording of “Fearless” by Pink Floyd and added a reverb effect in Adobe Audition that makes it sound void and distorted to make the effect. (the same song is used at 0:58-1:01, and football chant section at 1:14 and 2:30 respectively)

Also, many video clips were edited to make it look like people/characters are speaking words in which my sound collage sample is saying, but they are just either examples of pure chance, like at the 1:17 mark, where it looks like you see The Hound from Game of Thrones singing “I’m Tickled Pink” by Jack Shaindlin. (He is actually singing....this.) Or they were intentional morphed into looking like they spoke the word, like the obvious one at the 1:20 mark.

I started my process by mingling together sounds and songs samples from various medias and in some cases spoken word. I then, completely separately, compiled a massive load of videos from various sources on the internet, and also recorded some videos myself, of myself, and from footage of video games recorded by myself. I then tried my best to fit my sound examples together to form separate “skits”, then I did the daunting task of editing the videos together in a way to make it look like it all fit together somewhat naturally!

Description (as seen on YouTube): 

This is a project that I made for my sound art class! It combines themes we learned like plunderphonics, collage, acousmatics, and sound sampling to create something that is meant to be a revision of my past. I explore things that are important to me through: Internet culture + memes, video games, anime, TV, movies, music, and more! My main inspirations were glitch art, vaporwave, dirt style, and the core essence of what it is to be a sound sampler. I always ask myself: What is sound art? And to no avail, i get myriad of answers and descriptions. I created this piece to challenge the very question of what makes something "sound art" and what makes it just some plain old memified video found on the interwebs. This took me 3 days straight to create and I hope you'll enjoy!! 

Samples: [Emboldened = Used for longest period(s)]

Sounds - From the beginning (some are used multiple times with varying degrees of effects/distortion/application)

CD Scratch sound effect (edited - later used unedited)

VHS Tape Hiss (used throughout VHS tape and distorted at beginning)

Voice Recording - “What is Sound Art?”

The Boredoms - Budokan Tape Try

dubbed.wav - (voice sample)

Footsteps recording - by me

Ambient noise of city recording - by me

Steven Connor: Photophonics - excerpt as text to speech

Lighter flick sound recording - by me

VHS Tape Insert sound

Static effect 2

Paper Rad - Welcome to my site

Hitting my TV recording - by me

Come on, what is this shit? recording - by me

Glitch effect(s) (I used about 7 of these, I will list the #’s used)

John Cage - Music of Changes

Me playing Violin in response to music of changes

VHS Static Noise

THX Sound

Glitch effect 1

Glitch effect 2

20th Century Fox Intro - Recorder Edition

Glitch effect 3

Glitch effect 4

Highly distorted pokemon noise 

Error noise - subtle

Omae wa mou shindeiru (NANI?)

Chewbacca's Roar

Saya No Uta - Song of Saya I (Video Game/Visual Novel)

Sonic Youth - Green Light (barely heard underneath Song of Saya during seq.)

Junko Ohashi - Telephone Number (first awooo)

Windows computer error noise

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London (second awoo)

My cat (Luna) meowing - recording by me

Pixar Animation Intro (used bounce sound)

“This Isn’t Sound Art!” - Voice recording of myself

Naruto - Sadness and Sorrow

WTF Am I Doing? - Text to speech (text to sing!)

“The thief was smart” from the YouTube Video, “Professor pwnage”

The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties

Pink Floyd - Fearless (Highly reverberated/distorted during 0:58-1:01, and the sniper scene(1:44); I also used the football chants found near the end of the song at 1:14 and 2:30)

“What I am calling poetry is often called content” - Quote from R Murray Schafer - The Soundscape reading from class, Text to speech

Big Bill Hell’s (Fuck You Baltimore! excerpt)

Cheering crowd (stock sound)

Glitch effect 5

Korg-M1-Windbells MIDI sample file

Birds chirping (stock sound)

ORA ORA ORA - from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (Anime)

“Because life doesn’t happen...But i’m making sound and that’s the important thing” Quote from filthy frank video.

Glitch effect 6

Helicopter.wav (stock sound) (used during Monty Python: Upper Class Twit of The Year part) - This is worth a watch :D

Leeroy Jenkins - Popular Meme from the video game: World of Warcraft

Glitch effect 7

I’m Tickled Pink - Jack Shaindlin

Vinyl Crackling sound sample

Hey! Listen! - Navi from the video game: Zelda

Asuka saying “Ehh”- From the Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion

Cpt. Beefheart - Veteran’s Day Poppy

Radiohead - Fitter Happier

Avengers: Age of Ultron dialogue + ambience

ELO - Mr. Blue Sky

“Too many F****** People” - Recording of myself

Beeping censor effect

ARA-ARA

Who the hell are you?

Frantically writing - sound recording by me

Guided By Voices - I am a Scientist

The Grateful Dead - St. Stephen (used underlapped w/ “I am a scientist part-distorted into chime like sounds, also used at 2:01 more clearly)

Porky Means Business - Track from the video game: Earthbound

Call of Duty 4 Intro sound effect

“Aw shit, here we go again” - (GTA: SA Meme)

Nintendo Gamecube startup noise

Super Mario Bros. Theme

Dropping coins - Recording by me

Led Zeppelin - Going to California

Clannad OST - Roaring Tides II (Anime song)

Robert Johnson - Hellhound on my trail (used at 1:58-9)

Steins;Gate Opening (Anime; Used glitch sound from beginning)

Truck backing up beeping sound

Ally Kerr - The Sore Feet Song (used at beginning of the Halo 2 sequence in juxtaposition of Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California”

George Carlin - Advertising and Bullshit (”I call this piece...Advertising”)

Guided By Voices - Wonder Boy Poet (briefly behind “The Sore Foot Song”)

Door Stuck! Door Stuck!!! (Used video as media and mic chatter as audio)

Yawning - recording of me

Powerful goku vs the pursuer

To Zanarkand - Final Fantasy X

Lelouch’s Checkmate (Dub)

Galaga sound effects

TV static sound effect

Nautical Almanac - sounds from clip (further distorted/warped)

Mac death chime

Windows (PC) crashing sound

USSR Anthem played on Nokia 3310 phone

ZUNpet Test (Touhou video game music emulator)

Popotan Intro (eroge) (source of Caramelldansen meme dance)

“Help me” - Voice recording by me (reversed)

Rain ambiance stock sound

“Aw Shit” - Voice recording by me

Toto - Africa

Shion Laughing Insanely (Anime: Higurashi [a personal favorite])

The Doors - How To Touch The Earth (I AM THE LIZARD KING!)

VHS eject noise

VHS getting destroyed video