Hey Winael,
Here's my take on startup sounds:
Music can obviously have a profound effect on people. Advertising
agencies know this, and use it quite effectively in some cases. Jingles
are tied to brands in order to affect a particular mood in the listener,
to create a positive association with that brand, and provide a
memorable hook that the person remembers. Now, obviously music is just a
subset of sound, so while some might describe the Mac bootup sound as a
sound effect, it's actually musical in nature. I'm definitely not
suggesting Ubuntu should have an unnecessarily long or involved login
sound, or anything that is distracting (such as a brass fanfare). I see
Nick is on this email, and I was just telling him I had some ideas, so
I'll share those now.
I see the login process, sound wise, as being a one-two punch. When
lightdm presents the login screen, I think it would be nice to have a
very short (1-2 seconds) musical bit that is pleasing, but somewhat
unresolved, coaxing the user to log in. Once they log in, the musical
piece would pick up from where it left off, ending with resolve (2-5
seconds). Style wise, there are different options I won't get into right
now (orchestral, synth, a mix of both, etc). I will say that there are a
couple approaches we could go with the startup sounds: 1) something
melodic and memorable (hummable), at the risk of wearing out its welcome
due to repetition (people disabling it), BUT more identifiable as "the
Ubuntu sound"; 2) something more ambient/amorphous that focuses more on
mood/feel, not melody, which may stand the test of time better but not
be easily recalled and not seen as a strong brand sound.
I realize there are people who don't like startup sounds, and of course
there should be options to disable both the lightdm sound and login
sound, as we'd want to respect those personal choices.
As far as an Ubuntu Touch ringtone, that's a fantastic idea! Isn't Touch
due out in October? Might be kind of a rush for me, but I'm definitely
open to it! I need to pick up a Nexus 4 so I can install Ubuntu Touch on
it.. soon. Hey, that's now a business expense, isn't it? ;)
I apologize in advance if I have trouble keeping up with the mailing
list discussion, but I will be keeping in touch with Nick Tait and I
imagine the ball will get rolling from there.
Cheers!
-Sam
On 09/11/2013 08:55 AM, Vincent JOBARD wrote:
Hi Sam,
First, Thx for your work and it's good to see that's you want to
contribute to Ubuntu
I don't think a music is a good idea for a startup sound. The startup
sound have to be short. It's more... a sound. So the work to do is
more like sound design.
But I join Sid idea about a ringtone for Ubuntu phone. It could be
great with this great design phone. an high end ringtone. Ubuntu
spirit is "I am because we are", it's harmony, humanity and unity. If
you're write a clean melody with emotion, I think we'll have our
future ringtone.
Best Regards,
Winael
Vincent JOBARD
http://aliaz.com/winael
2013/9/11 Sid Payton <sidpay...@gmail.com <mailto:sidpay...@gmail.com>>
Hello Sam,
first I think you are doing a great thing by helping our Ubuntu
community. This lifts the contributions received by Ubuntu to a
whole new level. When even professional musicians / composer take
their time to contribute to this great project.
To your request:
I and many many more think a new start-up sound is required. There
was an official contest for it for the 12.04 LTS release but never
made it into official release.
( http://design.canonical.com/2012/02/ubuntu-sound-theme-design/)
It was quite anyway and the sounds weren't that pretty in my opinion.
But maybe Callum Pringle (callum.prin...@canonical.com
<mailto:callum.prin...@canonical.com>) or Nick Tait
(nick.t...@canonical.com <mailto:nick.t...@canonical.com>) can
give you more information about what happend and where to submit
you work.
Besides the start-up sound I believe that wie could also profit
Form some beautiful ringtones for the upcoming Ubuntu for phones
release (late October). So if you like to contribute even more
there's a good start.
Since musical contributions to Ubuntu are quite unusual and might
take a while there's always another route:
Make the music, upload them somewhere, notify us on this
mailinglist and let the community post your links on Google+ and
Facebook. If interest is big enough (and I belive so, espesially
because you're famous) your request/contribution will get heard
quite fast.
But only if they fit the Ubuntu spirit ;-)
Sid
Am 10.09.2013 19:24 schrieb "Sam Hulick" <s...@samhulick.com
<mailto:s...@samhulick.com>>:
Hey Rick!
To be clear, I'm a composer, not a sound designer, so when I
say "startup sounds," I'm thinking something musical. I'll
leave the UI sounds and other alert sounds to someone more
capable. Unless of course, they all take a musical route. :)
I could just whip up some stuff and submit it (to whom, I
wouldn't know). I'm looking for a more official channel, as
in, someone who could take the work I've done, say "yes, this
will do" and then officially make it part of 14.04 LTS. What
is that process like?
-Sam
On 09/10/2013 12:18 PM, Rick Spencer wrote:
Hi Sam,
I'm sure there are all sorts of things that would benefit
from sound
design. From apps to the system sounds like start up sounds.
Ubuntu is open to all sorts of contributors. Hopping on a
mailing list
is a great start. Essentially, you are asking to join the
Ubuntu
Community. Which is great, because it's open to anyone.
Here's a link
for getting started with the Ubuntu Community:
http://community.ubuntu.com/
Check out especially the community structure and Code of
Conduct parts.
:)
Cheers, Rick
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Sam Hulick
<s...@samhulick.com <mailto:s...@samhulick.com>> wrote:
Hey all,
My name is Sam Hulick, and I've been writing music for
ten years
professionally, and longer than that experimentally.
;) I'm most known for
my work on the Mass Effect video game trilogy, but
have several other game
credits as well as some film work (most recently a PBS
documentary).
As it happens, I'm also a huge Ubuntu fan (writing
right now from a ThinkPad
S431 running 13.04!). I'd love to contribute a new
startup sound (or sounds)
to be included in 14.04 LTS. If anyone could put me in
touch with the proper
person, I'd appreciate it!
Cheers!
-S
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