University Final Year Project

My final year project is about building up a DJ mixing event using self produce techno music which, through the event, brings the audience into a Hong Kong theme base psychedelic experience. Psychedelic parties or events were often related to drug use and illegal activities for people to escape reality and step into the illusional world. However, a Psychedelic event is not as superficial as just doing drugs but for people to find identity and a form of sub-culture that is indicatable to be part of the culture serve for a highly developed city. These underground parties are well recognized in western societies such as Berlin, London, Detroit, and New York. The reason I choose DJ mixing and production as my final year project is that I find it difficult to local my identity in Hong Kong after coming back from my two years of study in Germany. The lost feeling in the concrete forest is a good theme for a psychedelic event and Hong Kong’s unique feeling of loss deserves a suitable medium to transfer. Click the image below to see my Project page to know more!

Techno Music Production

Mixing result of 9 songs:

Genre: Techno

Song Production Software: Ableton Live

DJ Mixing Software: Serato

I created in total 9 Techno songs for this project by DAW software Ableton Live. I used these 9 songs for mixing in my event with Serato software. Here is the result of mixing these 9 songs.

Song1

BPM: 124     KEY: G minor

Song2

BPM: 124     KEY: G minor

Song3

BPM: 121     KEY: F minor

Song4

BPM: 110     KEY: C major

Song5

BPM: 120     KEY: G major

Song6

BPM: 125     KEY: C major

Song7

BPM: 128     KEY: B major

Song8

BPM: 126     KEY: E major

Song9

BPM: 124     KEY: F minor

Coding of Visual Control Interface

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Rendered Animation by the Interface

Final Result

Project Theoretical Study

Project Presentation