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…

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…

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…

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…