Description
Our audio project is called “Splish Splash” and revolves around a water theme in which the user is instructed to hover over any side of the screen to hear different water sounds that are composed into a melody. By hovering over all sounds, the user will hear beautiful noises that are made up of water in the real world such as rain, showers, or a sink.
Process
My partner and I originally wanted to create something involving water as a means of acknowledging the presence of water in almost everything humans do on earth. As our world is sustained by water as a base for life, we wanted to create a fun, amusing and warm sounding project using various water sounds. We finalized the idea by each gathering various water sounds such as a toilet flushing, rainwater and a shower turning on. From this point, we took the original samples and thought about how we could make them more clear sounding and crisp. Afterward, I took the original sounds gathered and tweaked them in a sampler in Ableton Live. After all the sounds were clear, I added a music aspect to the water sounds and made each sound into a melody. After this point, my partner worked on a basis for the code and we both put our components together. Once we created a working link, we both added simplistic visuals to go along with the water theme. We then used a hover effect to create our main audio interactivity. By hovering over each corner of the screen, different types of water sounds play. We tried to link a second page with new water sounds but could not figure out the final code. As a result, we ended up using two separate links. Both my partner and I worked fairly equally on the code. Although I focused heavily on the audio aspect, all ideas came from my partner as well as the idea to sample water in the first place.
Post Mortem
After we finished the project, we felt happy with our final result. I feel that we most definitely reached our goals of creating a musical melody out of water sounds and incorporated this nicely into an interactive site. However, due to limited time, we were unable to extend the project to be longer and include more layered water sounds using music-box. As well, we did not figure out a way to link the two final pages together. Despite this, we accomplished our primary goal in creating a hover-effect for the different sounds and making a very fun water-themed project.