Image as manuscript: Take 6

For this I decided to combine two previous pieces, one being musical instruments and the other being the natural sounds I had gathered, the reason for doing this is out of my work these two where probably my most preferred pieces and just out of shear curiosity whether they would work together. This piece is now very textures at parts where it is meant to be which I am happy with, I believe this may be the piece I use for my FMP as I feel that it shows what I am trying to do best.

please pages 48-49 in my fmp sketchbook for write up

my next plan of action is to start to plan/design my exhibition.

Image as manuscript: Take 5

Composed a piece for my final image, im not to sure how I like how this has turned out as it is not very fun to listen to but then again it wasn't designed to be nice to listen to. Im not yet sure which piece I will choose to exhibit.

Please see pages 46-47 in my FMP sketchbook for notes and an annotated diagram.

Final Image

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.

Image as manuscript: Take 4

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

Thrown myself in at the deep end!

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

Rediscovery leads to an idea!

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.

Image as manuscript: Image 2

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.