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Firstly in this unit we have had the task to create a Soundscape piece along with pitching our initial ideas for this unit. Our group chosen the title Tranquil to Turmoil which is a music concrete, meaning that we will be creating a piece of music out of sounds which we will find in public. As a couple of us already produce Electronic Music we thought when we process it through Pro Tools (software) we’ll create a Electronic type of track.
I was given the introducing 30 seconds of Tranquil to come up with a piece for. In this I used a lot of sounds coming from water sources and as it was going to lead into a heavy drop with dubstep type of sounds my piece ventured towards a long fast buildup containing Tranquil sounds. All of our group contributed when walking out into the public and recording sounds, this was done by meeting up for 2 hours and recording the whole of the route which we walked and from there edited the audio and kept the sounds which we liked for our piece.
In this task I feel that my strengths was mainly based on the producing side rather than the pitch, recordings and blog. My producing contained water droplets sampled to the keyboard with different effects, one to create the melody and the other to create the chords. Then the rushing water was used as ambience to have a background sound constantly going. Also we had given a sample drum beat which I added some claps to so that I could manipulate this even more and create more of a buildup. Along with this I found a truck going past and a drill sample which I edited to create a couple of risers. Finally I found a vocal from the elevator so like any electronic track before the drop there is a pre drop phrase which I added “lift going down”.
My weaknesses on this task was my knowledge of Pro Tools and the blog. I am use to Cubase 8 and Logic Pro X but I didn’t find Pro Tools as easy. Some softwares you enjoy for different reasons but I did not like Pro Tools sampling system so I did find producing this on Pro Tools quite hard but I still enjoyed it. Also I wished that I wrote some posts on the blog as this has been my only contribution on the blogs. Although Joey has been keeping up a weekly up to date blog I haven’t contributed to it so this is something which I will improve upon in the future.
To conclude I have very much enjoyed this module as although I said I did not like Pro Tools this task is still based on production and thats where my specialties in music and Audio Production lies. I feel that our end product has been a great success because everyone has had a task on the producing side and we have all worked really well together.