During this weeks experiments I began thinking about the sound effects used in this song, towards the end they cleverly use a selection of common office products to supplement the music (approx. 1:38 onwards).
The song itself isn't what we are trying to produce but it does really demonstrate the variety of sound that can be collected from day to day sources and manipulated to make it musical or in the least pleasant to listen to.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Radio Aporee
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| My Radio Aporee contribution at red arrow |
This location is interesting to me because this particular area is constantly in flux, I have lived in the Torbay area for my whole life and the cave is constantly appearing or disappearing because of the effects of erosion on the cliffs.
I found the recording quite soothing as you can hear bird life, waves and dripping water. The tranquil nature in the recording really is quite characteristic of the area, you get a slight removal from the weather outside causing a muffled effect on all the outside elements.
Recording Adventures Day 1
Today we have been exploring the greater Auckland area in a quest to satisfy all our initial recording concepts. The below photographs were taken at North Head one of the locations that we visited over the course of the day. This day for us was about experimenting with gathering any recording that the group was curious about.
One big thing that I noticed change through experimentation was our practice, my initial idea of recording underground at North Head was quite popular with the group once we got started, something that developed from that was a level of creating our own sound.
North Head proved a great venue because of the many broken or wrecked elements that were around to be experimented with, there was also a nice acoustic quality that came from recording in combined spaces. We have tried to stay away from being too 'musical' a lot of the sounds are rhythmic but I feel this does act to create a dark mood that suits the recorded sounds.
On review of the sounds we got I really like some of the starting elements, I do however feel that some of them are overdone as if we have tried to record too much at once and thus lost any purity of sound. I would be super keen to head back tomorrow with a bit more purpose and record some purer sounds as I think the location has some wonderful potential and a really dark ambient sound.
Interestingly the tunnels were also full of visiting families for the school holidays and we have found that a lot of high pitched children's voices have got into our recordings. Far from being a problem I actually really enjoyed the contrast between the high pitched child enthusiasm and the low pitch sounds created by us underground, I really want to experiment with combining these two when I come to editing my field recordings.
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| Underground |
One big thing that I noticed change through experimentation was our practice, my initial idea of recording underground at North Head was quite popular with the group once we got started, something that developed from that was a level of creating our own sound.
North Head proved a great venue because of the many broken or wrecked elements that were around to be experimented with, there was also a nice acoustic quality that came from recording in combined spaces. We have tried to stay away from being too 'musical' a lot of the sounds are rhythmic but I feel this does act to create a dark mood that suits the recorded sounds.
On review of the sounds we got I really like some of the starting elements, I do however feel that some of them are overdone as if we have tried to record too much at once and thus lost any purity of sound. I would be super keen to head back tomorrow with a bit more purpose and record some purer sounds as I think the location has some wonderful potential and a really dark ambient sound.
Interestingly the tunnels were also full of visiting families for the school holidays and we have found that a lot of high pitched children's voices have got into our recordings. Far from being a problem I actually really enjoyed the contrast between the high pitched child enthusiasm and the low pitch sounds created by us underground, I really want to experiment with combining these two when I come to editing my field recordings.
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| Our happy group (and Chris in a daisy chain!) |
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I am really interested in going to record sound at North Head in Devonport, Auckland.
North Head is declared by the Department of Conservation to be "It is considered the most significant coastal defence site in the country because of the size and variety of its defence installations and the fact that it includes elements from all periods of New Zealand's coast defence history spanning nearly 120 years of military history. "
For me however the fascination is in the potential for echo, reverberation and the creation of sound from the variety of rough textures left behind in these deserted structures.
Aural Terrains
For the first week of working on the Aural Terrains Project I will be working as a team with Anneke, Dylan and Chris A to produce a set of field recordings to create compositions from.
There are several things that I'm really interested in. I want to go explore the underground structures at North Head, try recording some interesting everyday sounds from round the house.
My concept with this will be to try recording sounds that are quite dark and ominous in nature and contrast them with warm, homely sounds that we are quite familiar with and comforted by. I hope that by playing around with very different types of sound I will find something that appeals to me either in one genre or in a synthesis of two or more.
There are several things that I'm really interested in. I want to go explore the underground structures at North Head, try recording some interesting everyday sounds from round the house.
My concept with this will be to try recording sounds that are quite dark and ominous in nature and contrast them with warm, homely sounds that we are quite familiar with and comforted by. I hope that by playing around with very different types of sound I will find something that appeals to me either in one genre or in a synthesis of two or more.
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