After researching i figure out how i can use the time and pitch machine on a blue loop.You just click selection as and create a new region and then you can use the time and pitch machine.

This week,in the first part of the lesson we watched the film “THX1138″ in detail and we analyzed it in depth.I heard more about the composer who wrote music for this film,Walter Murch.For this film, Walter Murch was inspired by  Schirfin, Pergolessi,Steve Reich etc.From Pergolessi ‘ s “Staba Matter” he was inspired for the introduction of the film, where he took the melody and he reversed  and changed  it.From Steve Reich he took the idea of not using electronic sounds.Furthermore, he took one voice and quadrupled the speed of the soundwave and then he added it with the original soundwave to give the sense of a bigger space.The whole film was originally done in mono.Nowadays, he uses Protools!!!

Moreover, this film expresses the dangers of a hyperdeveloped society resulting from the use of too much technology.This can lead to a dystopian society,which is a miserable society full of violence, disease, poverty etc.The film talks about a society where people are forced to take drugs to control their emotions , so they can be more productive.But one man rebels and stops taking the drug and starts having feelings. He is examined all over his body through a variety of machines to find out the cause of that “disorder”.

Apart from the film THX , we learned about helpful sites to find quotations, free books which help a student to have many sources and references for written work in general. Some of these sites are:www.books.google.com, www.guttenberg.org and Anglia Ruskin Library.Also , in Anglia Ruskin library, we can find the oxford dictionary where we can find interesting words and the earliest recorded use of them dating back hundreds of years.

The second part of the lesson, we were divided into groups to learn how to search the web for the most trustworthy and important information without getting lost in the numerous pages.

On Tuesday, we were introduced to the next task, where we have to write music for a painting in the cubist style.We saw some paintings by painters such as Kandisky ( fugue, 1914), Klee (fugue , 1921), Richer (Orchestration 1921), Picasso (Mozart) etc.I bought one book about Picasso by Elke Linda Buchholz and Beate Zimmermann,  in which his works are separated into eras.During that period he did  works such as “les demoiselles d’avignon”, violin”jolie eva”, “portrait of ambroise vollard” etc.I am still not sure which one to choose.I want to search more for other artists and paintings to better decide which one to write music for.

Now i am working on “The lord of the rings “, and i added some instruments such as flute and cellos, i deleted some parts of the violins and i added screams from the audio loops.I changed the pitch of the screams to make the voices sound dark and low ,but i had difficulty using the time and pitch machine to stretch the loops a little bit.