Composition 1 – Draft Version

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The audio file attatched is my first draft of the first piece. The piece is made up of two sounds which I feel compliment eachother. These two sounds are paper being scrunched, and water tipping into a metal pan. The sounds differ in frequency and although they contrast with eachother, they provide frequency and pitch variation which, in my opinion, works well.

The pitch within both sound samples is what I first focused on. I wanted the paper sample to be a clean, low sound and I used reverb and slowed down the bpm to achieve this. With the water sample, I thought by pitch shifting the original sound up, and chopping up and repeatedly pasting the sample to create a rhythmic effect would emphasise the higher end frequencies.

I have used the automation window to experiment with dynamics and this is something I will be exploring further with this piece.

The piece at the moment has a spacious feel which allows alot of room for diffusion and panning which I think needs improving on considerably. After playing the draft in class I feel that it is lacking alot of detail and although I am creating this spacious and open feel, it sounds sort of empty and needs to build up to something interesting.

I am happy with some aspects of this draft so far, however there is much work to be done on form and structure and I also need to work on using the mixer.