for this composition i used a sample i made of a piano, then I used ixi quarks to stretch the sounds and to make it sound quite eerie and off tune. I used the different pitches that i could extract from ixi quarks to layer the piece up. I used some glitchy resonate sounds i recorded by banging objets and effecting them with reverb, and pitch shift. The electronic glitchy sounds i used, i layered up with another version of the piano i created on ixi quarks. i added more and more grains of the sample up to build it up and to blend it in to the granulated music box sample i had granulated. I then added it with some insect buzzing sounds as i feel that it adds more texture and i can imagine it vibrating the whole room when it is panned in surround. The music box bell sounds contrast with the softness of the piano, and i used reverb to give them space. I decided to bring back the piano in at the end, as it felt incomplete if i didn’t.
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The reason I feel this composition is contrasting to my first one, is that the sounds are completely different, with the first composition using a very slowly moving drone, with a pitch that is hard to define. The metallic sounds in it are quite harsh, and glide around to contrast with the bell sounds, which resonate and really bounce around the composition, and i hope will bounce around the room when they have being played. The swelling and dying down of the drone i wanted to appear to be quite trance like. The contrast of the gulls and the heavy breathing with the harsh metallic drones gives contrast between sections within the piece, and i really wanted the transformations in this compostiion to be subtle and to grow slowly, and not to rush anything.
With my second composition, I wanted the piano sounds to be soft, and for the listener to take time in enjoying the soft and resonating sounds, and to feel that the layering in this composition is its main feature. the listener should be able to clearly hear each layer being added and separated, and to be able to feel the piece grow and changing. similar to Ruptures by Stephane Roy.
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For my portfolio, I have decided to change one of my compositions by taking ideas from two and putting them together to have a ABA form. I have done this so the listener will recognise sounds. I find that when i am listening to this track, i don’t notice the change from part A to B, and sometimes i feel that the sounds of the Gulls, might be coming from outside. This is the effect i wanted my composition to have, so that the piece is slow, and subtle, and the listener doesn’t feel any dramatic changes between transformations, and can still tell where the transformed sounds come from. The sudden stop i have from part B, is to give the piece some space, before the part A comes in again, although this time it has been transformed slightly, so the listener can still recognise it from the beginning but it is slightly different.
have a listen… Sleeping Beaches
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hey, would like your thoughts on my glitchy granular piece! i thought the glitches could be panned around the room well, as i think they have a good shape, and that the piano would always be present in all the speakers… let me know ur thoughts
gllitchy granular
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This week I am going to try and automate my surround sound… After yesterdays lesson i decided i am going to try to accentuate some of the hits and gestures in my compositions.
I think once i have tried to improve my compositions and perhaps write some more, i will have a clearer idea of the two contrasting pieces that i want to concentrate on.
”The boundaries between the real world and unreal worlds become blurred – eventually we begin to recognise the unknown.” (Pete Stollery, programme note to Peel.)
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I have been trying to start work on my second composition. I have used samples of bells, and birds… at the moment it is a shell, and it needs filling out. I have been tempted to delete it and start again but i would like peoples views, i want to try to morph from one sound to another. After listening to some Kim Cascone, I love the fluttery sounds that flicker in and out of the music. This is why i have chosen to make the bird noises flicker, using Ixi quarks. At the moment my plan is to have the flickers moving around the room, and to have the light bells coming out of the back speakers only. I want the rumbles to be passed from side to side. There is some sliding of the church bells, and i’d like them to be passed from left to right. . . this is just a basic idea but i hope to put granulating shapes crunching into the track, its just trying to create them, and what sample would be a good one to use to get the outcome i want. . .
Its not ready yet….
all feed back would be greatly appreciated on both compositions, bearing in mind there very much shells of work.
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My first acousmatic composition attempt… needs a lot more work, but give me your feedback… I used some bell samples, also a whisk recording, bird recordings. I recorded objects that resonate, like hitting a vase with a pen ect.
acousmatic first
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This week i have been doing some listening to some acousmatic composers such as Normandeau, Francis Dhomont, Kim Cascone and Stephane Roy. I esecially like Micro-Confidences. After listening to music with a theme, i think that i will use my recordings to make a theme piece. what this is i’m not sure of yet. I love the micro sounds, like dust, that flutter into bigger sounds in Micro-Confidence. It reminds me of thousands of flies turning into birds, and flying. The sounds transform well from one to another, and move around the listeners ears. The clear and crisp cracking of the dust sounds that flicker from tiny sounds to larger ones with the growing drone of a growling like sound creates tension, and i find that im never sure if the noises are going tense up and crash down again to dust. I can imagine this track diffusing really well around a room. For this reason i plan to use bell like sounds, that can resonate as a drone, and perhaps natural sounds like birds ect that can be cut up to tiny freckles of sounds to fly around my composition. . .i just need a theme… and a plan…
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Today we met up as a almost complete group, and decided on a piece of music to play in next weeks class. We decided on a Normandeau piece, from the album Claire de terre. We chose the track Overture. The reason we decided this, is because we could just imagine how this will sound on the 8 speaker set up. The rhythms and blip sounds are so crisp and whole. The sounds spread across the whole spectrum of the composition. The use of orchestral and real sounds, that have both been manipulated by technology sound amazing entwining around each other. . .
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