Assignment 9/1: Sounds around me.
This sound took me quite some time to come together, and did not expected to have such a macabre and ghostly feeling around it. I recorded one sound on the street when cars were passing by. I realized that it was more of a movement of the air itself, mixed with the motor of the vehicles. The other sound I used was a person who was playing a piano in TC, and struggling a bit to get the tune. Another sound was a can that where I did the sound of the tab when i flick it, it sort of was like a rusty guitar. Lastly, the fourth sound was the squeaking of several doors around TC. There is something intriguing with an old door, it feels like it has a better story to tell thank the new ones.
I then started mixing the sounds in audacity. The main editing was slowing down the sounds, and changing the pitch to make the tone deeper. Also the effect fade in, fade our was very helpful to make the sound cohesive. Overall it was more of moving things together ant to create a piece that made sense, trial and error. But what made me create this grim tone was making the piano slower and deeper, from there it feels somewhat macabre. Some sounds are unrecognizable, like the cars passing back by the change of tone into them. It was fun for me to try a new software, I have experience with garageband, but not audacity. Audacity was a straightforward software, very easy to use and edit.
The reason fro my sound be called Gideon's gruffness is because the sound reminds me of this character going to abandoned places to look for evil, and bad people to protect others. I imagined him as a rough voice kind of person. And he is not a person who trusts everyone, so sometimes he has to appeal to be gruff to others until he knows their are not enemies. This sound is like a sound that comes from one of Gideon's journeys.
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This is so creepy and mysterious - I love it! It's so interesting how you made so many of the sounds unrecognizable so that pretty everyday, normal sounds become a haunting soundtrack! It reminded me of music that you might hear in a haunted house or one of those ghost hunter shows. It has these eerie moments of silence and instances that I particularly liked where it sounded like a sound was being played backwards. If you wanted to explore sound further, it would be interesting to experiment with more sounds from your daily life that you play backwards to see what effects reversing creates with a variety of sounds.
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