Filed under: Acousmatic Composition
A few weeks ago I got a chance to diffuse a few sounds that I had recorded and see whether or not they would work in a diffusion context. One of the sounds I brought in was a that of a toilet being flushed, and this is the particular sound that I have decided to use for my one minute piece.
Using the lessons I learnt from diffusing Theme de la Fuite a week or so ago, I have composed the one minute piece in a manner I would deem similar, that is to say with bursts of short sounds followed by longer sounds that bleed in and out of the piece. Here is what it looks like in the arrange window of Pro-Tools…
TOILET FLUSH
The piece reminds me in sonically of Jonty Harrison’s Unsound Objects mainly because the toilet flush is comprised mostly of draining water (you may recall that in week 3 we listened to two of Harrison’s pieces, the other was EQ). The beginning of Unsound Objects is built up mainly of sounds that sound like water draining from an unknown container.
I’ve tried to structure the piece dynamically into three/four main sections, each of which lends itself to being diffused in a slightly different way. The piece overall is bounced in mono, so there is no stereo automation, meaning I will have total control over the sounds being heard in each speaker channel. Hopefully, it will sound ok on the day.
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