Week Twelve
This week I got to grips with my second composition. After some playing about with it I settled on creating an ambient piece and I took what I’d done along to tutorials and the feedback was extremely helpful. I made better use of the river/water sounds by doubling them underneath at a lower pitch. I also added a few synth sounds to highlight certain features in the music. I also added a synth sound to lessen the impact of some of the wind noise on a few of the recordings. I found a synth that had an airy/breezy sound and then used this for some time in the composition to give the whole thing a feeling of unity. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to stick to the original plan of using arch form and instead went with making the most of the sounds in a progressive way.
I then went to automate and did encounter a few problems. On some of my tracks I found that there was only a single dot rather than three and on other tracks found that the sound didn’t appear to be moving as much as I would have expected. However, I did the best I could and produced something that I was happy with.
Overall I’ve really enjoyed this module, I’ve learnt so much and though it’s been hard work it’s also been very rewarding.
