I’ve been combining some of my past ideas lately with original techniques such as playing with the order of sounds (what goes first and what goes after, etc), the pitch, automation (automatic increase or decrease) of volume and cutting audio material into pieces (as suggested by my teacher) and it has proven to be very beneficial. I feel a lot more confident in regard to my sketches and they do feel a lot better.
Above you can see what automation looks like in the software we use.
I’ve basically taken some of my previous ideas and made them more original by applying these aforementioned techniques and layering sound to hopefully make it more compelling to the listener. For my 3rd sketch specifically (the one with the synth pad), I added an electronic section that directly contrasts with its original concept.
I’m feeling a lot more positive about how I’m doing after having had a chat with my teachers today and after seeing that I do have most of the work already done. It also helped me to know that I can make 6 or 7 sketches instead of 10 which means I’m doing a lot better time-wise.
It was brought to my attention that some of my H4N recordings were noisy and I came to realize that it’s due to the air vents in my room (which I can switch off). I tried to fix some of the recordings (the last two) but the noisy recordings came out better than the phone recordings after having shut off all the fans so I’ll leave them as they are for now and fix them if I have enough time by the end of the term.
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