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Sound Slopwright

Graduates of “Slop that sounds”: music and sound effects, checked with a meter.

The Sound Slopwright badge
Slop that sounds, on the Slop Curriculum

A branch of the Slop Curriculum for people who finished its first two pathways: a house style for the ears, written as data and checked with a meter, ending in a sound pack rendered and measured by the workshop’s own synthesizer.

The Slopwright teaches it with the workshop’s sounds: “Every bleep in this workshop is four numbers and a wave.” Even the sea in the sardine tin has rules for how it sounds: “soft waves, nothing over a second, no echo.” His favourite sound is the mute button.

The facts

Kind
Group
World
The classroom
Appears in
The Slop Curriculum
Pathway
4: Slop that sounds
In one line
Music and sound effects: a house style for the ears, written as data and checked with a meter.
Modules
8
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What the sources say

  1. Ask a machine for “chill music” and you get the lift music of every lift at once. It isn’t wrong. It’s just everybody’s.The Slopwright, Generic sound slop, The Slop Curriculum
  2. Every bleep in this workshop is four numbers and a wave. I wrote them down so I’d stop humming them at people.The Slopwright, A sound is a recipe, The Slop Curriculum
  3. If the coin and the crash sound the same, the player has to look to know which one happened. They’re busy. Tell them.The Slopwright, One event, one sound, The Slop Curriculum
  4. My sardine tin has a sea in it, and the sea has rules: soft waves, nothing over a second, no echo. That’s why it sounds like one sea and not a soundboard.The Slopwright, A house style for the ears, The Slop Curriculum
  5. I don’t write songs. I write the rules a song has to follow, then let a seed do the humming.The Slopwright, Music from rules, The Slop Curriculum
  6. “A bit louder” isn’t a number. Minus six decibels is. I keep a meter on the bench for people who say “a bit”.The Slopwright, Mix it, measure it, The Slop Curriculum
  7. The best sound in the workshop is the mute button. People who can find it stay longer.The Slopwright, Quiet, please, The Slop Curriculum
  8. Here is a little synthesizer from the workshop. It plays whatever you describe and then measures it, which is the part where most people go quiet.The Slopwright, Ship a sound pack, The Slop Curriculum

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