On the 19th of may I decided on my final image (can see below) and sent it to print ready for my exhibition. I have decided to use this image as it has more quality's about it than the other. for example; this image has bits of yellow in it unlike the other which gives me more notes to use (A sharp) I also believe this piece is much stronger in composition.
I have now started composing for this piece and plan to have it completed by the 26th of may.
I have Just completed another arrangement for an image using natural sounds, this time I used my 2nd image, I have retuned all my sound clips I record in accordance to the colour section they represent and then arranged them using what I had learnt from my previous attempt and had planned it out much more this time. I have also used more textures in the textured areas for example where it is very textured (such as the grass section, C/B) I have used Poly-rhythms (Different rhythms playing at the same time)
Please see pages 40-45 for annotations and write ups
I have now gathered multiple audio samples for this experimental piece, I looked at a couple of people for inspiration for my piece, one piece being made using game sounds (found below) they have gathered multiple samples of sound from the game and placed it together to create a piece of music, I had planned to do something similar but with sticking to the rules I used in my other two pieces and using sounds of the items you could see in my photograph.
After this I threw myself in at the deep end (as I believe the best way to learn something is by trying it yourself) and started to import my sounds into cubase, After choosing which segments I was going to use I started to arrange them in a rhythmical fashion, once this was done I added effects such as reverb to make sounds last longer, I then encountered my first problem I soon had to solve, I did this by searching for a tutorial on how to pitch shift clips in cubase, once this was solved everything was straight forward.
Please see write up and annotations in my sketchbook pages 37-39
Looking through my first sketchbook I have discovered a piece I had created for the museums paintings taking samples I had recording them to build a sound-scape for that painting.
I have decided now to further my project and to go down the the location where I took my photographs to take samples of the stones/wood/plants/wind anything down there and then change the pitch of these samples in cubase in relation to the colour sections in the image for example the wood would be altered to sound like an A note as this is the note value of the colour within the spectrum.
My attempt for my 2nd final image, I much prefer this piece as it is much more pleasant to listen to as the notes and instruments work better, I tried to take what I had learnt from the first images piece and apply them to this piece (assign each colour an Instrumental family).
please see sketchbook page 34-36 for annotated diagram and write up.
I have started work scoring and recording a musical piece using the Image as a manuscript, relating each colour into the musical equivalent (for example Blue = D , Green = C etc...). For this piece I related the number of tracks into musical bars and then composed bar by bar starting from the bottom and working upwards. I then took note of what colour related to what note and how much texture were in different sections of the images and then tried to add texture/lose texture in my music piece where needed.
Please see pages 32-33 in my sketchbook for write up.
Out of my many images I took I have Chosen two of my best images to pick between I have annotated them to help me when composing, they now show what each section/colours etc represent in a musical sense. What I now plan to do is create a few scores for the two pieces and then pick my best for my exhibition piece.
