Experimental Sound : Final Piece

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Story

It begins in a regular church service, nothing out of the ordinary. People can be heard talking in prayer, bells occasionally ring and the sound of a priest giving a sermon. Suddenly the casual scene flips to being more chaotic, representing some kind of destruction of the church and all the negative feelings that surround the idea of religion. The sinister tone and demonic sounds could also be interpreted as a more horrific image, being more apocalyptic. The chaos abruptly stops and a short period of ambience is heard. Scratches and scrapes then represent a person left in the aftermath, the Pope, who is clawing either to escape or in a way that shows his loss of sanity. This sound was inspired by the way the paint looks as if it has been dragged down the painting, creating lines and a distorted image. The heartbeat was laid on the track to be irregular as a heartbeat would if in a panicked state, and becomes faster as the stress grows and becomes more frantic. The sudden stop of the heart is left up to interpretation as to whether the soundtrack has just been cut off or if the person concerned has died. 




Audition Look 

Final multitrack layout

Final mixer 

Sounds Recorded and Used

Feedback from the recording studio (used for the heart beat and for the ambient noises towards the beginning)
Scratches
Scraping

Sounds Developed 

Choir


Found Sounds Used

http://www.freesound.org/people/dsp9000/sounds/76405/
http://www.freesound.org/people/cormi/sounds/104112/
http://www.freesound.org/people/ninebilly/sounds/173010/
http://www.freesound.org/people/andrew1280/sounds/42893/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Gzmo/sounds/140256/
http://www.freesound.org/people/ekzem/sounds/178882/

Final Thoughts


I felt like the beginning was too plain and didn't have much depth, but I was advised by friends who reviewed it before being finalised and exported that it was better to keep things simple rather than over complicate with many noises. I am a little worried that it doesn't sound 'religious' enough but I'm hoping the bells and the priest's voice will make it obvious as to the setting. I am pleased with the middle section of the piece as I think it is pretty close to what I wanted the chaotic atmosphere to sound like. Towards the start the church bells are relatively slow and spread apart but the tempo of them is increased when the action begins in order for it to fit in with the pace at this point. I like how this turned out and I feel it was necessary to remind the audience of the church setting and the religious background. I was also relatively pleased with how the scratching noises sound at the end as think it gathers a real feel to the look of the actual painting, as well as contributing to the story. I was disappointed that I wasn't able to follow my initial thoughts of having some kind of musical rhythm as I was looking forward to composing it, but I feel like the narrative was a lot more sensible to represent the picture on a bigger scale and perhaps a more musical approach may have been too repetitive or boring.






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