I think I’m done with the past 2 sketches and have begun working on my next 2. The third comes from another track on my playlist called “The Evening Fog”. It’s a very gentle piece of music that uses a lot of synth pads, they usually have a very soft attack (it takes a bit of time for each note to fully sound). I’m attempting to do a simple melody that uses a lot of this kind of sound but I also don’t want to overuse synthetic instruments so I’ll try to add something “real” in there.
The next sketch is inspired by another track in my playlist called “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima”. This piece of music is extremely uncomfortable to listen to because of all of the high-pitched sounds and it actually in inspired by war so I felt it was fitting. I’m currently trying to adopt some elements from it, like recording annoying sounds with the violin and putting together many of my other “chaos” recordings.
I’m also preparing for the class presentation and I’m a bit worried that most of my ideas and sound recordings deal with the concept of chaos. I was previously very confident of the research I had done but it turns out I’m gonna have to investigate some more; hence, I’m in the process of re-evaluating my life notes and trying to come up with other ideas.
Here is a collage of the 2 themes of these 2 sketches I’ve discussed. The first two are very peaceful and beautiful and the other 2 are chaotic and depict total destruction.
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