Week Ten
So this week I began to actually compose my second composition. After collecting all the sounds and having previously planned out my structure I thought this time round would be a lot simpler than my first composition. I was wrong. The problems I’d had with the amount of wind in my recording soon became clear when I tried playing the sounds back to edit. I had to get rid of a few sounds altogether and the ones that were okay took a lot of editing until I was left with fragments of the sounds that didn’t sound too distorted. Once I was happy with my sounds I then altered them using ixi quarks or sampling them.
Again Heather and I have been doing a lot of setting up of the mixer in 029 so I’ve had the opportunity to listen back to my sounds in the eight speaker set-up and each time I’m still amazed at the difference it makes. I also had a little go at playing around with the automation on my first composition and found it interesting to see the different effects that can be achieved compared to diffusing with the mixer.
