Going of the ideas we had in the lecture we all were given a task to create one part of the piece using synthesisers only. I decided to go for the middle chaotic lighting storm part as i felt i could embrace that part mostly. And it would allow me to be more experimental than the other parts. When creating the piece i was feeling a bit grumpy and stressed out and i think this enhanced the creative process.
When creating the piece i started out with a max for live instruments available on Ableton and i wanted to create a room tone or background drone sounds before creating the others.
I started using the Tree Tone synthesiser and it creates natural drone sounds based off natures architecture of trees. The arms on the trees create different resonance frequencies and on the left you can change certain parameters. I then resampled it onto another audio track as its a generator and does record the output onto its track.
I also used the wavetable synth messed around until i got a sound i felt embraced the chaos. I picked out a waveform and frequency resonance that didn’t clash with the original drone sound set as i wanted to attempt to fill out the complete frequency spectrum of the lightning part.
My effects process was also based of experimentation and trial and error. Using overdrive to dirty up the sounds and delay/ eq to mix it accordingly to my vision. A thing i found interesting was when creating the piece and the synthesisers i initially started playing chords for the piece. Which i felt was strange and not something i wanted to do. I wanted to create noise, a primordial soup sort of soundscape. No order just pure chaos.
The most funnest part was the vector fm, i really went crazy with it and added lots of fx that added towards the chaotic energy. Delays, bit crushing. Echo, redux effect.
i layered up a few vector synths and changed and pitched plus resampled to add octave automation.
this was the outcome which i felt very happy with, i’m not usually to into synthesisers but i think i’ve always used them in a musical sense but for sound design this was so much fun.