A. Concept
The central goal of this project was to capture the feeling of remembering a memory. To accomplish this, I used a sound familiar to many people: the sound of a mourning dove. You know that owl-like hoot that you used to hear in the misty mornings when you were commuting to school? Yeah that one. Memories are triggered by very specific senses, most notably audio and smells. That’s why nostalgia is often experienced through a song or the smell of mom’s cooking. After the mourning-dove trigger, the memory slowly becomes more vivid as the brain pieces together more details associated with the memory, (which for me was making my way to a nearby stream).
B. Process
All my sounds are captured at Century Park, the park where I grew up next to. I wanted to make the sounds as authentic as possible so I captured them directly from the source. Leaves crunching, twigs snapping, mourning doves cooing, are just some of the small background noise I experienced as a kid that brings me way back when I hear it nowadays.
In terms of editing, I mainly used the parametric equalizer and denoiser in all of my clips in order to mitigate the wind sounds and isolate all the sounds as best as I could. I used reverb and amplify in order to make the sounds I wanted to emphasize on (such as the mourning dove) as prominent as possible.
C. Conclusion
I would certainly used more elements and create a more clear picture of the memory I was trying to illustrate after the introduction of the mourning doves more. The sound of water splashing was often confusing.
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