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Session 5 – Reflection on Audio-Visual Composition
While I wasn’t able to produce any notable or satisfactory results within the session, I did reflect on the nature of Audio-Visual Composition and the different kinds of thinking you can approach it with. I specifically watched the scene from Blade Runner, linked on the Moodle page, which is one of my favorite films. I…
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Session 4 – Controllerism
While I found other parts of the lesson interesting, the most exciting moment in this session was being able to use the Ableton Push for the first time. Prior to this session I never understood the utility of the Push in regards to writing music or sound design. My sound design tends to be with…
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Session 3 – Spatial Sound
In this session, I tested 8-channel audio for the first time. It was completely new territory for me and forced me to utilize my sound design knowledge in new and different ways. I wanted to make the sound within this setup feel alive, almost as if it was breathing. To do this, I got a…
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Session 2 pt. II – Analog Synthesis Continued
In this session, as I was already quite familiar with the other synths being talked about, I tested Ableton’s new synth, Meld, using the same principles being discussed in class. Its very warm tone lends itself to creating full and lush pads that can be further accentuated with FX. I found that adding lots of…
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Session 2 – Analog Synthesis
This is a piece I made using FM synthesis (operator) in Ableton. I wanted to see how far I could push the synth until it produced sounds that felt alien and impossible to create through the common conception of FM synthesis. To do this, I mapped all the pitch parameters in Operator as well as…
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Session 1 – Recorded Sound
This is a small drum loop I made in the first session of the Creative Sound Projects Unit. In this exercise, we were given 10 minutes to record sounds with our phones around the school and then had to use the remaining time experimenting, processing, and arranging them into a loop. I used many different…