Mono sound track, I've never done it before. 
It is a challenge for me because this mono piece have to based on my concept also need to related to the space for listening experience.
After I tried Tone.js a little bit, I kind of figuring out of what functions it provides that will let us beautifully and efficiently using for creating sound. 
At this point, I am starting to think of how to make a piece that based on my concept. I feel like it is an opportunity to try to make experimental sound, because the mono idea surprisingly bordered my idea of creating sound. And by thinking the narrative of ourself, I would like to express my feeling of chaos in both real society and digital society. I always reminding myself to hear the voice that deeply inside me, the original and not lost thoughts. I would like to use sound to represent those ideas.

I would want to record a piece of poetry that would most intriguing me and represent my concept, which is using my own voice. And build up sound and/or noise sound for showing the chaos around us. 
I would like to let listeners to cover their ears and hold a chopstick with their teeth then stand the chopstick on the table to feel the sound converted from their bones. For the speaker, I would like to flip over the speaker upon the table.

The way of listening
I am thinking of the ear. The way of listening is not just with the ear, even the ear is kind of using bones or ossicles of the medium. So I want to consider what we actually heard inside ourselves? Just like John Cage heard two sounds during a visit to an anechoic chamber.....  Bones? Auditory hallucinations? tinnitus?.....


The poem that I used for recording is from Beidao (North Island), a Chinese famous poet. The reason I choose a Chinese poem is I would like to confuse audience, and let them think of their own narrative and to feel the voice inside themselves instead of me.

迷途
北岛
沿着鸽子的哨音
我寻找着你
高高的森林挡住了天空
小路上
一颗迷途的蒲公英
把我引向蓝灰色的湖泊
在微微摇晃的倒影中
我找到了你
那深不可测的眼睛
 
Lost 
by  Bei Dao (North Island)

Tracing a pigeon’s cooing cries
I am looking for you
Towering forest that has veiled the sky
On the trail
A dandelion going astray
Leads me to a lake in blue and grey
Through the wavering inverted image I
Have found you
And those unfathomable eyes

After recording my voice, I converted and made it into midi file, then made 3 tracks of that melody with different instrument. On top of them covered different frequency of sound. (for making the chaos and cover my voice).
Then I am using the listening method that I mentioned above for testing the effect. I feel the part around 1000Hz will be the best to hear under this method. So I edited the EQ in a weird way. lol 

For visualizing the sound. I am imaging in this way instead of a normal visualization of sound waves.




My journey of Tone.js

I made the simple recording and composed a melody? (not really) on top of it, the melody is mimic the voice's frequency over time. And I converted it into midi file because I want to try it in Tone to see what I can build based on that. However, I made the sound by using the FatOscillator, I couldn't use the midi file in fiddle...I couldn't solve the error even I tried different methods. I am still figuring out and studying Tone.js, but I feel it will be more in good use if I create an interactive music project based on the web. I would love to try it during the study period, but I feel I want to finish this work and to see the effect. So I decided not using Tone this time, instead using music software for producing.
However, since I already tried and it was so fun! I would like to show a simple piece that I made after I finishing this one. 

The errors of "CORS disabled" (solved) and Bad MIDI flie? (I tried both Json and mid file.)


In the middle of making, I actually want to generate some noise by using Tone.js, because it is beautiful in code! 
I failed ..
I can't hear the sound if I turn downside of the speaker, so I just test it on the speaker itself. After the text, one of the audience said there is a vibration speaker can transfer sound wave to surface. I would want to try it!!! Unfortunately I did't find it in ITP, and my order did't arrive yet. :(
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