link to the project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A3UIMNbOt2nbEbcApkrXA5Maa5CAQEHB/view?usp=sharing
Concept
This soundscape tells about my experience of one period of my study. At the starting point, I was pretty excited to begin my new journey. The confident footstep just reflects what I felt at that time. Then, this sense of novelty and excitement became my motivation to study and pushed me forward. I use filters to achieve my further emotional expression. However, as time goes by, such freshness is worn out. The only thing I can remember is the countless scolding and overwhelming homework. They cannot stop remaining me of my weakness and shortcomings, making those days very depressive. Gradually, they became a large fixed part of my life. Being so upset myself, I found I gradually lost the ability to perceive different emotions. In the soundscape, the volume becomes lower and it represents the person finally losing hearing though some fuzzy tapping sounds refer to his struggling. Finally, the very loud sound marks the person’s failure and the sound of the telephone “dududu…” indicates that he’ll never make respond to the things in his life. He loses his right to feel all the emotions.
Process
I first record the sound of walking in high heels. To make it clear and have a sense of space, I let my partner walk in the corridor. Besides, I tried as hard as I can to lower the Tascam to record the powerful sound. I choose the landline because it creates a feeling of office. And the office is in some way similar to the school. People there have endless work, endless blame, and complaints. They can be places full of resentment. It helps make the person’s depression reasonable.
When dealing with sound, I found noise reduction very useful. My records always had background noises and this function in Ur made my records clear. I once meet difficulties with using different filters because there are so many options to take and I didn’t fully know their functions. So I could only start with the easiest one. And I don’t think I did a good job with the volume because some records seem to miss because the volume was too low to let others hear.
Conclusion
If I had more time, I’d like to spend more time recording more samples as the professor said. Meanwhile, I need some modifications to their length and volume. Although I was satisfied with the last part, the middle part still had a lot to improve. I need more practice on transition and processing my records. One of my classmates once told me that there was too much “white space” in my work and I might need to reconsider them. As for the emotion, fortunately, others could feel the anxiety and the professor gave me advice that it would be better if I twisted some of the records.
Bellows my screenshot is attached
