Martin will be exhibiting at this years Appledore Arts Festival with a nice stereo film instillation. He has asked me to work on providing the sounds for this short visual piece.
An important theme running through the footage is fire. This is also the theme for the festival this year so Saturday was spent recording burning meths, sizzling paint, burning plastic and bursts of flame from a fire stick. (Not sure what the proper name is for the fire stick but it's one of those ones people juggle with)
It was also a really nice chance for me and Martin to hang out together and work on something exciting.
Despite my hangover, Sunday was spent at home editing the sounds and manipulating them to create interesting sound effects. This went well but I can't help feeling that I was running through the same old processes, applying the same old effects and getting the same old results.
I have another recording session planned for this evening where I will be recording some more experimental sounds, still with the end vision of fire. Perhaps I also need to re-think the way I manipulate the recordings. Does everything need to be done in the box? does everything need to be done using plug-ins? Perhaps I need to start pulling the audio waves apart in a new way.
Something from Sunday that's really getting me excited is a short piece of music I started composing using some of the sounds from Saturday. This has a really eerie drone and lots of sounds washing from left to right which will work excellently in Martins stereo installation. I also stretched and de-tuned one of the flame recordings to create a surging, bassy woosh which adds a dark sense of movement to the piece.
Despite my worries over the originality and creativity behind some of the sounds so far, I am confident that this project will showcase some of my best production and composition yet.
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