The week before I did a presentation for about 100 students at the Media and Music Conference at the Julia de Burgos School in North Philly. In preparation for that conference, I developed the Magic behind Sound presentation, however after an initial dialog with the students, it was apparent that I needed to readjust the focus of the presentation from the technical aspects of sound, to a more hands on/demonstration of sound wave manipulation.(Read More about that Conference here).
At the Luncheon kickoff I decided to do the Magic Behind Sound presentation as I had originally intended. I told Dave about the presentation and asked for his involvement and he undoubtedly agreed to help out. We decided to divide the sides in half, keep the presentation brief, and do a demo afterwards. For the demo, we recorded the students onto the computer, and displayed their voice "waves" on the screen for them to see. For giggles, we had one young lady say "Peter Piper" and showed how her waves were compressed, and spiked whenever she said any word with a P.
Another young woman was brave enough to sing for us. After recording the sounds, I did some manipulations and processing to the sounds and played back the new sounds for the audience. They were excited to see the interesting new sounds, and they were amazed to see the sound corrections done for the young lady that sang! Check out peter piper recording, young lady singing, as well as other sounds below!
