Memory Soundscape
Freddie
Concept and Design
I choose a memory that reflects my daily work and life experience. It is mainly about procrastination. I would like to make and create a comparison between a chilling mode and a working mode when I’m chasing my deadlines (ddls). I think I’m really displaying a feeling of the mood when I do not want to work at all but all my assignments and deadlines are approaching. So when it comes to a time that I really have to start all my assignments, I begin to work at a full-speed and the feeling in the Brian when I turn on a working mode is a mixture of chaos of anxiety and the order of trying really hard to get things done. Somehow I can’t just simply use the sound of the keyboard and the sound of a pen writing to display the working mode. I decided to record other tools such as drills to show my rush, in the meantime, I tried to find many interesting sounds in my kitchen back home so I decided to record them as well.
Process and Manipulation
I uses the sound of a bag of cheese, a little knife touching the cutting board, my breathing, knocking the keyboard and such sounds in the first lazy part of my daily life experience. I especially use a sound of the a button on my induction cooker to indicate mode switching. The latter part I use louder and fiercer sounds such as drills, smashing plastic bags, water flowing and stirring bricks.
When it comes to the manipulation, I use the button sound to cut two parts of the middle and the beginning and the end to clarify four stages in my soundscape. In the first half, I put sounds more loosely and the latter part more intensely. I use the left and right channel a lot to make a surrounding effect in order to show me in a small room chilling, wondering and doing nothing. The latter part I also adapt this technique but instead of making a single sound going left and right, I accumulate ad put different sounds in the left or right channel but a single sound won’t be changed to a different channel. I think this can reflect on a stage when I have to use both of my hands and feet to finish my ddls in time.
Conclusion
I got lots of feedback and I think the majority of them are: my soundscape is a little full. I put too much sounds inside. Although it sounds not bad, it does give the feeling of rushing, it is too noisy for people to appreciate the details inside this work. Also, professor Ian and professor Eric says that the mixer and reverberation I’ve used is making the soundscape a bit too dry. So each part doesn’t connect well with each other, making this soundscape a feeling of being deliberately divided. If I had more time, I would arrange the sounds better, in particular, I would delete one thirds of the sounds and make the comparison more obvious. I would adjust my reverberation and multifrequency suppressor to make the soundscape smoother. I will also consider adding more of my sighs in order to let the listener know what I would like to display.
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