Haris Ali

Dubstep.

“This is me mutilating a plastic bottle.” – The inspiration behind this piece (originally a slate in one of my Foley tracks for my upcoming Watchmen sound re-design trailer). I found a lot of my previous dubstep songs were lacking with excitement, depth, and a balanced frequency spectrum. Hence, I’ve worked especially hard in creating a multi-layered bassline using Massive to fix this problem. Also, I’ve used many of my own sound effects that I’ve been developing for my next trailer including glass breaking, watermelon explosions, car sounds, and, of course, a bottle getting the hell squeezed out of it. I included a couple of the sound effects underneath the main piece to give a little breakdown of the various parts. Enjoy!

Bottle Mutilation 

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I recently took the trailer of Tangled and redid the sounds in my own style to explore sound design in regard to film and other visual media. This was a wonderful experience and I will be doing one or two more movie/game/animation trailers to show off some more of my sounds and processing techniques.

I introduce to you, my finest work yet! This piece includes all the recent production techniques I’ve learned…ghost vocal fade ins, 5-part harmonies, vocals (singing lessons paid off!), dubstep-step-inspired wobby leads, and pogo-inspired disney samples…the whole sha-bang. I’d love to get some feedback!

Wishful Thinking by Syed Haris Ali

The last two weeks have been pretty awesome. In addition to graduating from Johns Hopkins (on the  JHU website’s front page you can see me shaking hands with President Daniels!), I’ve also had time to code a ton of stuff in C++ and understand how to translate some of my Matlab audio algorithms into more useable code for future projects for smart phones and such. Today I stumbled upon a dance beat I created two years ago when I first learned how to use my Motif’s arpeggiator and decided to turn that 10 second clip into some longer so I cut it up in pieces, remixed section, reversed stuff, created a fat bass, and shrunk and stretched it into a new form. Let me know what you guys think!

So here’s a preview of the kind of vocals I’ll be doing in the new song. I haven’t recorded my voice in 3 years so it’s kinda crazy to be singing again! I won’t be able to complete the song today because of academia, but it’s definitely coming along slowly…(I may increase the tempo and mix the whole thing differently in the end)

Stay Away
SneakPeak by Syed Haris Ali

Feburary 16th, 2011

Just wanted to announce the release of a new song I’ll be uploading by tomorrow night with more complexity than my previous pieces. It incorporates a couple new new drum processing techniques, electric guitar power chords and shredding, and more foley-type percussive recordings of my environment to take a break from beatboxing. As typical, it will have a medley of dubstep elements, acoustic instruments, and retro synths (custom, of course ). I want to offer more rhythmic variation and more a well defined song structure (more typical rock or pop Intro -> Verse -> Chorus type of thang).