Buttons, from left to right: Go to the previous song Stop the current song Play the current song once Go to the next song Play all songs after this one in order Play the current song and repeat when finished Note: Pressing any button while the "play all songs" or "repeat current song" buttons are pressed will cause those functions to stop. They must be manually reactivated.
First and foremost, the ORIGINAL FULL VERSIONS of these songs have been preserved on Archive.org! They can be found here: https://archive.org/details/massavesessions If you can't access Archive.org, I've uploaded them all to Google Drive too (copy and paste all five lines here to make the full URL; be sure to copy the hyphens too!): https:// drive. google. com/drive/folders/1mv6Gi- jWanUqJKv7EXNxoQXTPKwclqD- If you can't access Archive.org or the Google Drive folder, I've also uploaded them to Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/785183926/ Note that these sound files may be more compressed, if that's something you care about. Also, feel free to use any of the loops in this project however you want! I put them up on Scratch for public use, so go wild with them as long as you credit gloob(ic)—and also me if you want to :) For context... You might have wondered at some point who exactly made all the sounds and costumes that come bundled with Scratch. I sure did, and I found out that some files from Scratch 1.4 have attached metadata listing info about the track title and artist. I found out that the music loops "Techno" and "Techno2" were both produced by the group gloob(ic), and the album the loops were from was called Mass Ave Sessions. Back when I made this project they could be found easily online at http://www.gloobic.com/massAveSessions.html# The website itself has since been taken down, but is still accessible via the Archive.org Wayback Machine. Seeing as how the Scratch Team only used two of the twenty-one total songs in Mass Ave Sessions, I decided to challenge myself to make loops out of the other nineteen songs. That's what you're hearing in this project. When I started looping these, I gave myself a couple rules: 1) They should be around eight or sixteen seconds long. The Techno loop is around eight seconds long, and Techno2 is around sixteen (it's actually fourteen or so, but quiet parts of the original song were trimmed down for the Scratch loop), so to mirror the originals I thought I should give each loop a length of one or two measures. 2) They should loop (somewhat) cleanly. Techno and Techno2 both do, so I figured I ought to make sure my new ones do as well. Some of the more ambient loops like Techno8 and Techno9 sound sorta janky on Scratch, but they sound mostly alright when looped in a program like Audacity. 3) There should be as few vocal noises as possible. This was particularly difficult, since almost all the songs in Mass Ave Sessions have some sort of human sound in them, and it'd mean I'd have to choose which section I used for each loop carefully. It was particularly difficult for Techno10 (which uses the only vocal-less half-measure in the whole song) and Techno4 (which I needed to edit a bunch to remove some vocals), and I just ended up caving in on some others like Techno8 (where the drone in the background couldn't loop cleanly unless I included a measure with vocals) and Techno13 (I mean, come on, there's "ah" sounds throughout the whole song!). I think overall it was a lot of fun to try my hand at something like this. It was frustrating for some songs that just didn't seem to want to work right, and I think with some more time I could fix some of the weirdness in some of them, but I think I ought to stop here before I drive myself up the wall even more. I learned a couple of things, too, like how you should try and cut off sounds when the wave's amplitude is as close to zero as possible or else you'll get a pop in the audio. I still don't quite get sound, waves, or music, but I think this was a valuable lesson that helped me understand them just a bit more. For more gloob(ic) lore, the only surviving gloob(ic) media posted officially online that I know of is a music video on YouTube titled "Here the Nothing." It's got some cool music and interesting choreography, you can find it by searching "gloobic here the nothing" (without any punctuation) in the YouTube search bar. The two members of gloob(ic), Eric Gunther and Jeff Lieberman, also helped direct the music video for OK Go - End Love back in 2010! Lieberman also has his own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lieberman_(artist_engineer) Credits: All songs here were composed and performed by Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther of gloob(ic), and all the music in this project should be attributed to them. All I did was edit them a bit. Coding: @turtlehat Interface Art: @turtlehat Thumbnail: @turtlehat, with a logo from the old gloob(ic) website Background: Scratch Team, from Scratch 1.4 and Scratch 2.0 #music #musicloops #techno #gloob(ic) #gloobic
