Musician Andrew Shum took a bunch of household items to make some interesting music for an electronic music composition class. The assignment was to record 20 different sounds using various household items, and then synthesize them into a song using only slicing, pitch transpose, gain, and EQ. He created a beat made using sounds from 10 things he found in the house. The following sounds were used:

Hitting a bean bag – kick drum
Slapping a notebook against my knee – snare
Scraping butter knives – high hat
HTC Android ringtones – glitch line
Playing a scale on a casiotone mt-45 – bass and glitch line
Speaking in falsetto – glitch line
Strumming a guitar – chord overlay
Starting up a vacuum cleaner – filter sweep
Shaking a plastic bag – “crash cymbal”
Walking on hardwood floor and opening a door – intro
Pressing a “that was easy” button – glitch line

All sounds were recorded using his MacBook Pro’s internal mic, and were EQ’d / repitched in Ableton Live. Wonder if he got an A for this assignment? Kinda reminds us of Elevated by Paul Dateh.

House(hold) Beat by Andrew Shum