Filed under: Acousmatic Composition
After last weeks diffusion session, I came away filled with ideas for my final diffusion composition. I really enjoyed all of the things people have with doing with the elastic audio features of Pro Tools (something I could spot quite easily as a Pro Tools user). Some really nice sounds being made and recorded by the class as well.
I feel the diffusion of my piece went pretty well. As I discussed in an earlier post I had tried to mimic the dynamic style of Theme de la Fuite with the composition I made using the sound I recorded of a flushing toilet. I my initial composition worked quite well in this respect, but in the one minute time frame, I didn’t have the time to build tension in certain sections. In my final four minute piece however, which I have been working on this week, this is something I have remedied. Long build ups which climax in manic jittery moments.
I have stuck with the ‘watery’ theme of the toilet sounds, but have juxtaposed them with some very electronic glitch sounds (which I made by ‘sonifying’ computer program files using Audacity). I like the idea that water and electricity can exist side by side in a compostion, and even compliment each other, when in reality, they can not. The sonic properties of electricity seem to mix rather well with some of the water sounds I have so it should be interesting to see whether the listener can tell the difference.
One last thought… the classic acousmatic effect that seems to pop up in many acousmatic pieces (I’m thinking of Jonty Harrison’s Unsound Objects specifically)… turns out it’s just Flange!
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