Tranquil To Turmoil

Thursday 7th December

On this day our group came together to gather sounds for our soundscape. We started on the university campus and then ventured into the city centre before heading back to where we started. Once we had finished we had collected around 46 minutes of recordings. The next task was to go through each recording and pick out sounds we liked for both the tranquil section as well as the turmoil section.

An issue I encountered when recording on this day was the amount of wind there was and the amount of people that were in the city centre. This meant I had to be really patient to get the sounds I really wanted. As well as this, the portable audio recorder ran out of battery mid way through our recording session. This meant I had to go and buy some extra batteries so we could continue recording.

-Joseph Cooper

Wednesday 22nd November

Feedback for our group presentation was uploaded to blackboard on this day. We were able to see what grade we scored (I scored a 68/100) and we were also able to see the breakdown of the grading and we were left with some comments on how we could improve. In the feedback it says that our piece seems like two rather than one.

“However, your concept feels like two pieces rather than one. You have the mindfulness piece, then you have the sound effects/Foley/processed piece.”

Using this feedback, as a group, we were able to talk about the exact route we wanted to take our project.

-Joseph Cooper

Tuesday 14th November

This day was the day of the presentations. When it was our groups turn to present we were both prepared and calm. We managed to get through our presentation to the allotted time and with no errors. After the presentation was over we answered a few questions which helped us to reflect on our soundscape idea so we could change and improve it.

-Joseph Cooper

Monday 13th November

My group met up to bring together the slides that we worked on individually. I loaded each separate powerpoint up and collated them together into one final powerpoint presentation. I also added to the bottom right corner of each slide the persons name that worked on that specific slide. Once every slide was in one presentation our group ran through the presentation a couple of times to make sure that the run time met the criteria of over 4 minutes but less than 5 minutes and also we knew exactly what each of us would say.

-Joseph Cooper

Sunday 5th November 2017

On this day I went around my flat with a Zoom H4N and recorded lots of different items in my flat (plates, bowls, glasses, the fridge, doors opening and closing). I managed to get around 8 minutes of recording in total. I then brought this into protools and began to listen to the recorded piece and pick out different sounds I liked. Using different plugins within ProTools I could manipulate different sounds to sound like, for example, a kick drum or a percussion loop. Once i had each individual part (kick, percussion, claps, etc) I made a 2 bar experimental drums loop aiming in the direction of how our Turmoil section of our soundscape will sound.

-Joseph Cooper