Sound Signatures Assignment:
For this project you will compose a 5-minute sound signature. As expressed by DJ Spooky and the Futurist, sound is a powerful medium for expressing ideas, emotions, dreams and desires. We are all consumers of sound. Sometimes we buy music that resonates with us. The lyrics hold a special meaning; the instrumentation sends shivers up and down our spine, make us laugh…. or make us cry. We are also constantly surrounded by noises… the quiet sharp drip from a leaky faucet, the sound of trucks rumbling down the street or children playing in the park, of fingers striking the keyboard.

"At this point, I can't think of a sound I haven't heard or that I couldn't make. The strangest sounds I hear at this point in my life come from inside not outside. Dreams and basic nighttime thought processes generate the most creative sounds. Nothing else can come close to some of the sounds I've heard in my mind. The basic idea is to use the digital to try to make a bridge between the interior and exterior. Music like hip-hop and electronica is about theater: how people live to the sounds. Technology is a collective hallucination, and we are able to send our visions and ideas in ways our ancestors would have thought were god-like. Myth and code are just two sides of the same coin; people are becoming more technological in a way that is at heart how we live and breathe and think in the everyday."
From "Rhythm Science Paul D. Miller AKA DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid"

The variety of noises is infinite. If today, when we have perhaps a thousand different machines, we can distinguish a thousand different noises, tomorrow, as new machines multiply, we will be able to distinguish ten, twenty, or thirty thousand different noises, not merely in a simply imitative way, but to combine them according to our imagination.
From "The Art of Noises" by Luigi Russolo