FIELDS & FRAMES | sound
At the beginning I had a lot of influence ideas:
MGMT
Big Science
1975 how to draw/petrichor:
the way it builds up w/ the distortion-y type thing was something i liked and ended up doing something like it in my piece.
VOICE OVER VELVET GOLDMINE
voice also music c,b,a,g??? at 3:30 the whispery type thing.
this pink floyd song i came across and liked the structure and the chords sounded great so I wrote them down to possibly use and steal them (like a Real Artist!).
O Superman and the atmosphere it generates.
A main inspiration:
07/04/19
listening to albums/sounds/music
Got recommended this on youtube and loved it yee haw:
i wouldnt say they all influenced this project however i think theyre interesting and document them here in case i need to reference them in the future.
Also these two tracks from my notes at the bottom of this post:
Did some tests on protools. went ok, however this was before I found the atmospheric albums and i wasn't sure what i was doing with it.
Got out a zoom and recorded stuff!
some night noises out my window, some birds that i heard at 3am, some more stuff outside during the day from a balcony bit, the kettle, tins and bottles, record player crackling, lighter noise which i thought could sound interesting slowed down with some EQ and reverb and my window rattling.
then began working on the first section in Audition, as I had more access to that as I could work on it whenever so decided I would save the protool MIDI tracks as audio and edit things in audition so then I could edit them when uni closed for easter and also change the mix whenever.
Did some chord progressions in protools
tried some music theory stuff i had been learning about, i dont know if i did any of it 'right' or i did what i was trying to do but hey i tried and it doesn't sound 'wrong') including ........ Negative Harmony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHH8siNm3ts). Which is where in a key you substitute a chord(usually the 5th) for the opposite in the minor. I found it quite difficult to work with at the beginning as i was still getting my head around it but there's this cool grid i found. For the beginning of the piece i worked in an Am key (roughly or at least thats what i began with, im not great with music theory atm). Also Modal Interchange yee haw. Tried to also do a key change 1/3rd of the way into the musical section (Am to D??). I was originally thinking of doing it straight after 'The Internet' but the bit id already recorded that i put there worked really well and i didnt want to change it, so i did it a bit into it. i also tried using a raised 4th/lydian mode a bit in the D section. I just wanted to try make it sound more interesting by trying these things rather than trying to stick to a simple chord progression. It's not like im super strict with the 'keys' anyway, if something sounds right ill do it anyway. As well as this, I used broken chords where id play the root note further down the keyboard and also use inverted chords, just things like this to Spice it all up !
Protools Folders: The folder named chords is where i began working for the first section/the part with the poem. The recordings folder was where i put the recordings and the release folder was where i started working on the 'musical' part. and then theres also the audition folder for the audition file.
When i got back to farnham, I worked on protools on the tuesday for 4 hours and then I edited the rest on audition as I felt i didnt need to record anything else.
I didnt take many screenshots of the protools workspace, however this is how i worked for the rest of the stuff, with tracks just having little bits on and exporting them as separate tracks and transferring them to protools, etc.
by the end of the edit, I had 38 tracks in audition (rip)
Ill add some screenshots so you can maybe see how the piece goes along.
Overall shape (i did it a stair shape to help keep track (no pun intended)
CLOSE UPs:
panned the chords to move between L and R (i did this with quite a few bits)
Overall i think it came out really well, for a while i was unsure about it, however as soon as it came together at the end i liked it. There is a section though where i think some of the bells are too loud over the speaking when played out loud, however i think it sounds okay with head phones as the opposite channels separate them, which is something interesting i never really thought about.
some notes i found that i made along the way:
MGMT
Big Science
1975 how to draw/petrichor:
the way it builds up w/ the distortion-y type thing was something i liked and ended up doing something like it in my piece.
VOICE OVER VELVET GOLDMINE
voice also music c,b,a,g??? at 3:30 the whispery type thing.
this pink floyd song i came across and liked the structure and the chords sounded great so I wrote them down to possibly use and steal them (like a Real Artist!).
O Superman and the atmosphere it generates.
A main inspiration:
07/04/19
listening to albums/sounds/music
Got recommended this on youtube and loved it yee haw:
i wouldnt say they all influenced this project however i think theyre interesting and document them here in case i need to reference them in the future.
Also these two tracks from my notes at the bottom of this post:
Did some tests on protools. went ok, however this was before I found the atmospheric albums and i wasn't sure what i was doing with it.
Got out a zoom and recorded stuff!some night noises out my window, some birds that i heard at 3am, some more stuff outside during the day from a balcony bit, the kettle, tins and bottles, record player crackling, lighter noise which i thought could sound interesting slowed down with some EQ and reverb and my window rattling.
then began working on the first section in Audition, as I had more access to that as I could work on it whenever so decided I would save the protool MIDI tracks as audio and edit things in audition so then I could edit them when uni closed for easter and also change the mix whenever.
Did some chord progressions in protools
tried some music theory stuff i had been learning about, i dont know if i did any of it 'right' or i did what i was trying to do but hey i tried and it doesn't sound 'wrong') including ........ Negative Harmony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHH8siNm3ts). Which is where in a key you substitute a chord(usually the 5th) for the opposite in the minor. I found it quite difficult to work with at the beginning as i was still getting my head around it but there's this cool grid i found. For the beginning of the piece i worked in an Am key (roughly or at least thats what i began with, im not great with music theory atm). Also Modal Interchange yee haw. Tried to also do a key change 1/3rd of the way into the musical section (Am to D??). I was originally thinking of doing it straight after 'The Internet' but the bit id already recorded that i put there worked really well and i didnt want to change it, so i did it a bit into it. i also tried using a raised 4th/lydian mode a bit in the D section. I just wanted to try make it sound more interesting by trying these things rather than trying to stick to a simple chord progression. It's not like im super strict with the 'keys' anyway, if something sounds right ill do it anyway. As well as this, I used broken chords where id play the root note further down the keyboard and also use inverted chords, just things like this to Spice it all up !
Protools Folders: The folder named chords is where i began working for the first section/the part with the poem. The recordings folder was where i put the recordings and the release folder was where i started working on the 'musical' part. and then theres also the audition folder for the audition file.
As you can see I had a few different things. I dont think i included everything as some of it didnt work or i removed. But, i did use more of what i saved in this folder than i did with the release folder which has a bit more stuff that i ended up not using.
Before going home for easter, i wanted to try get some protool stuff saved (melodies, chords, beats,etc) so i could edit the last half over the holidays. This worked out pretty well, but
i felt some stuff didnt fit. This wasn't terrible, as i now had an idea of what i needed to record on midi when i got back to uni.
by the end of the edit, I had 38 tracks in audition (rip)
Ill add some screenshots so you can maybe see how the piece goes along.
Overall shape (i did it a stair shape to help keep track (no pun intended)
as you can see towards the end i kind of gave up naming my tracks hehe
some notes i found that i made along the way:
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