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For our turmoil to tranquil soundscape piece I consider myself very fortunate to be in the group I was. I thought we all got along well and cooperated well as a team. We had a shared idea for what would be beneficial to the piece, yet at the same time it was pleasing to see how; whilst still keeping the core idea of the track, we were each able to demonstrate our musical strengths and background. For example I like how Luke’s 30 second build up was EDM influenced which made sense as a build up to Joey’s electronic heavy dubstep part. We agreed that if we kept some core ideas and sounds a constant throughout, especially the tempo, that we could hopefully pull off separating this track between us without making it sound like 3 different songs. This piece after all was designed to be in sections.. Tranquil build up, Turmoil, then Tranquil calming.
My particular part was the ending tranquil section, I was happy with the end sound. I am vastly less experienced than the rest of the group but I enjoyed the satisfaction and pride you feel when building something up yourself. But listening to the other parts which I was very happy with, I am definitely eager to learn more and discover what more you can do with sound.
I have no past experience in something like this so my self evaluation may be slightly, well wrong. There’s a lot I know I can do better which I will address after, but I can’t help but be happy because it’s something new for me and I’ve managed to complete it to a standard that myself and my group appear to be happy with. I listen to a lot of trip hop ish bands such as Massive Attack or Flying Lotus and I guess the part I worked on has a chilled experimental trip hop influence. I expect a lot of feedback on where I could improve but I look forward to it because doing something like this is fun, it allows you to be creative and so any way I can improve and learn more doing something I thoroughly enjoy I look forward to. I also feel I understand how you can use EQ and inserts both for something that NEEDS to be done in the audio, but also you can use them with a lot of creative freedom for the sound that you want.
I definitely had things I could have posted on the blog along the way, but didn’t. This is something I will definitely need to improve upon in any future projects similar to this. Time management was a key factor in this and I think I will have to improve how I manage all the modules and the different deadlines, to ensure I deliver the best possible final product. I also feel I worked slowly on the pro-tools software, but this pace did increase each week and with further practice I will hopefully be able to be smoother in this software and similar ones that have the same principles.