After my tutorial during class, I was encouraged to continue experimenting and further develop the short pieces I had done. I started today by layering all sorts of different sounds and cutting pieces of audio and changing their order and I think it was an interesting idea. I’m actually beginning a 5th sketch with that idea: I’m cutting up bits from my last sketch (the one with all of my chaotic recordings combined) and rearranging them to see what comes out of it.
This is what the cut-up audio looks like in Logic X, but since I’m not able to upload sound to this blog, you’ll have to listen to it on my SoundCloud playlist I’ll create with my sketches.
In order to encourage experimentation, I want to use the idea I had for my final piece, the idea of war (chaos) followed by reconstruction (order), as one of my sketches to force myself to come up with a more original final piece. I hope this strategy works out for me and stimulates my creativity.
I still have some additional ideas I want to try, but it will have to wait until tomorrow because I am too tired right now and I find that good ideas don’t flow the right way when my mind is distracted.
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