REMEMBERING O'O: Sound Files for FileMix and FileMixAuto (2011) Sugar Activity/Linux version Art Hunkins abhunkin@uncg.edu www.arthunkins.com The Kauai O'o is a now-extinct bird formerly native to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The introduction of black rat, domestic pig and disease-carrying mosquitoes are thought to have contributed to its demise in the late 1980's. These 4 sound files are edited from the Kauai O'o recording posted on the eartotheearth.org website, which in turn originated from the Macauley Library orthitology collection at Cornell University (where the Kauai O'o is identified as Moho braccatus). Soundin.1 is a background cricket track; the others are different O'o segments of the eartotheearth.org recording. Soundin.2 is panned significantly to the left; soundin.3 to the right. Soundin.4 is again centered. There is otherwise little textural difference among the three; each is about 15 seconds in length. They are designed to be looped in live performance. Remembering O'o is primarily suited to FileMix4 and FileMix4ASC; it is not recommended for FileMix (or FileMixASC). The files are particularly appropriate for *single-parameter* rendering, where track *amplitudes* are varied and sounds are otherwise unmodified. In such a case, MIDI control will result in far subtler variation of amplitude changes and levels than will the ASCII keyboard versions. The files work well in FileMixAuto also. Needless to say, whatever the FileMix version selected, all setting changes should be slow and tempered. For further explanatory notes, including suggestions as to how to import these files into FileMix or FileMixAuto, see the ReadMe's included with the Sugar/Linux versions of the two activities. The likely import scenario: download the .zip archive on another computer, unzip the files to a USB drive, then transfer them to the Journal (on Sugar) via drag-and-drop. The activity can import the files from there. (Note: this procedure should work for all versions of Sugar except for 0.82 on the original XO-1; one solution: upgrade the XO-1 to 0.84 Strawberry.) Note that these audio files will not appear in the Journal under "Audio". They appear under "Everything". If you want them to be listed under "Audio", change the file names on your USB drive to something ending in ".wav"; example, rename "soundin.1" to "Remember1.wav". (Make these changes before doing the drag-and-drop to the Journal.) Caution: if you are copying audio files *direct* from USB drive to activity folder, do *not* change names. The default audio files in FileMix.activity and FileMixAuto.activity must remain "soundin.1" through "soundin.4".