- Develop one of the pieces begun in today’s session to be played in next week’s session.
- Add the piece, or a part of it, to your blog. Add some annotation to this.
- Reflect on notes taken in today’s session. Consider what aspects of the session may be useful in your personal practice.
As an exercise in relation to sound objects and sampling, we have taken some audio recorders and been recording sounds around the college with whose later on we’ve made a sound composition in Ableton.
This is the result of the audio piece:
It is a very experimental piece of sound design where I’ve manipulated the recorded sounds in order to recreate a mysterious atmosphere. The recordings have been retouched in terms of pitch, envelope and length; and there are also been added several effects like reverb or dynamics.
During the class I enjoyed the explanations about Musique Concrète. I’m really interested in using tape techniques within my sound practice, I already use cassette tape to experiment with and I’ve particularly enjoyed the explanations about reel tape cuts, I hope to explore this field more in depth in the next lessons.