Following from week two exercise we brought in our parts of the storm. We shared our one-minute pieces onto the one drive to share amongst ourselves and had to combine two other pieces to create one. To make the make second generation. This exercise wasn’t about adding anything simply to change what was there already. Cut it up and mess with the sounds to create something new.
I combined two pieces, Wain and Thunderstorm. I blended the two together to create the calm before the storm and then to begin into the lightning chaotic part. I mainly used delays to emphasise the piano glitchy part. Then made one of the sounds with delay sound like rain. I automated the auto filter to create a sense of something missing in the frequencies so when the storm comes in it feels like this is what we’ve been waiting for.
I found that I focused more on experimenting than when creating. Almost like how I use samples in my own music. The sounds are there for me to mess around with and deconstruct or maybe not deconstruct. But I find my lack of musical skills to hinder my ability to generally start with a nice sounding piece of audio. I also feel like using samples or sounds in this case from other people can allow me to use the context in which it’s created to enhance the production. I feel it also allows you to think how you never would as your using someone’s pieces to add to another piece to create something new.
I was speaking to Dan my housemate who is also in the course for us to try and do this at home and send each other stems and keep adding more and send it back and forth to see the results. I will keep the blog updated on this as it happens.