Rhema's Music Technology

Task 2 - In this task I will be talking about the sonic components and faults in the song ‘Hit the road jack’ by Ray Charles.   Natural Sonic Components   Natural sonic components are components that appear naturally in urban environments, which mean that a variety of sounds can be heard from whichever  environment,  you are in. For example, if you are in the staircase of a college building and someone decided to shout, right after they shout there will be an echo.  This is due to the sound waves being bounced off on the walls surrounding you. Sound will reflect off harder surfaces where as soft surfaces will both reflect and absorb the sound.   An acoustic environment is the size of a room in which a sound takes place and this can be determined by how much reverb there is for example if there is a lot of reverb then it was either recorded in a large concert hall or has had a plugin put on it to make it sound a particular way . The acoustic en...

In this assignment I will be discussing the musical faults in the live performance of ‘Barking’ by a UK artist called  Ramz  at the Capital Summertime Ball.    Rhythm – this is a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound   During the performance  Ramz  had his track being played in the background throughout the entire song.  The backing track has simple time (4/4). The main notes being played are crochets and quavers. This is a convention of hip-hop music. The rhythm is a regular pattern as it’s the same throughout the entire song. However,  Ramz  comes in after the first beat making the performance sounding delayed.   This could have been fixed by the technicians increasing the volume of the fold-back speakers to allow the singer to hear the backing track while performing as he had his  earpiece  out.    Melody and Harmony- this is a structure of notes being played together in order to...