Category: Creative Sound

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I written down the score on paper and then recorded it. Compared to the last project, this time I add more instruments such as drums and violins.

When I finished my melody, I use the recorder to record the sound around me. Because of the lockdown, I couldn’t go everywhere, so I just recorded the sound outside the window. However, in the first project, I also recorded the ambient sound outside the window at home. Compared with the recording this time, I thought that there were the same. That’s all that happens in front of my window every day. I can’t find the new voice. But finally, I solved this problem I added my own voice.

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I used new software– Ableton, and I put recorded sound clips into it. Then I added the echo Audio Effect. I tried two different effects of the echo Audio Effect and finally chose the Downwards.

Draft:

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– Above are some drafts of my work on this topic. The Ouroboros is not only my inspiration but also the structure of my whole sound piece. Ouroboros is the form of the finishing snake, end to end, which means endless. I also want to make the structure in this way, which means continuation and it has its own way of circulating independently. This just like anima can not be created and can not be destroyed，It’s something that exists on its own. 

– When I doing some research, I found that Norman, a psychologist, gave a meaning of Ouroboros which was called “pre-ego”. I got 2 explanations of ‘pre-ego” when I put this word in sound art. The first meaning is the sound you hear when you are unconscious, or when you are not conscious. The second is the sound heard in the womb.  

– The sound heard in the womb: prenatal education music. Many people like to listen to Mozart’s music as fetal music. Most of Mozart’s music was fluid and cheerful. Mozart’s musical creation perfectly embodies Goethe’s thinking that “Art is nature and nature is art”.   

– “Art is nature and nature is art”：When I close my eyes, I can hear the sound of the wind,  dogs barking, people talking… These are all-natural sounds.

The name of our theme is “Anima” which is derived from Latin. At first, for some personal reason, I misread the name of the theme, thinking it was “continuation”. The good news is that my overall source of inspiration is the same. So I don’t have to update my whole draft.

Anima：which originates from Latin, used to describe ideas such as breath, soul, spirit, or vital force, which links to the idea that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; only be transferred or changed from one form to another. There’s an element of mystery.

Thinking:

I mentioned in my blog about Echo Ho at the beginning. I want to use Guqin to finish my project. The story of this project is about sacrifice. I couldn’t find the sound piece of guqin in the software, so I contacted my friend who is studying music in China.

However, when I got the sound piece was late and it was only a few days before the deadline, I try to add the sound piece. Finally, I gave up. I hope it can be used in the next project.

Thinking:

While we’re waiting for the recording of Guqin I was still thinking about the theme. Then I find Ouroboros, it was originating in ancient Egyptian iconography and the moving action of snakes symbolizes the transmigration of the soul.

Ouroboros and Anima both are mysterious and have explanations of the soul and some spirits. I combined the Mobius ring and the Ouroboros, so the Ouroboros looks like “♾️” which a symbol in mathematics called infinite. There’s a sense of inexhaustibility.

The two above are my favorite music. I want to write something similar, but I haven’t figured out how to combine them with the theme。

These two videos have many different music types. The video above, the music shows on 15 ’49 and 24′ 17, is the style I like. There are people’s sounds in 24 ’17 seconds, but it blends in with the music and I think it’s interesting.

Part 1:

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This isn’t the first time I’ve tried to listen to the sounds around me, but it’s the only one I’ve ever sorted them out. The more I classified it, the more abstract it seemed to me. Things like pleasant sounds and unpleasant sounds, these are really abstract concepts.

I think my band teacher once said in high school that music is to organized the sounds, people only like or dislike.

Sound is more abstract than the other art forms.

Part 2:

This is new software, its interface has a lot of categories. At first, I didn’t know how to use it, so I found it a bit troublesome. But then I saw the demo and I realized it was really interesting software. It has a lot of Musical Instruments and sound effects. Although I am not used to writing music on this software. I import the written music and then use its sound effect to make me feel very interesting. It gives me lots of different types of music, and even completely breaks the melody of my original song, which makes me feel surprised.

Ideas:

Some ideas for my work. Piano sound.

part 1:

Feedback

Kind of like lightning/fire sound, with reverb and resonance.

He would take me to another world, the relationship between the human body and sound.

I think so. He can make me understand the work better, which is a kind of explanation

Part 2:

6 words:

1.house 2. book 3. Mushroom 4.full moon 5. Swimming pool 6.rain

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STORY

On the day of the full moon, it began to rain again. The rainwater is in the empty swimming pool in front of the house. There was only one window with light and that room is for reading. A child was stepping on a stool to look for a book on the shelf. Soon she found the book she wanted, a red book of fairy tales. The child opened the book and began to read it. Outside it was still raining, the flowers were scattered by the rain, the mushrooms were all over the damp planks.

Pictures and stories show the sound:

1: The sound of rain

2: The sound of turning the pages

3: The creak of the wooden floor

4: The sound of stools rubbing on the floor

The story doesn’t show but the voice of my personal imagination:

1: The sound of leaves getting wet from the rain

2: The sound of the forest blowing in the wind

3: play the thunder

4: The voice of a child

5: The sound of the fireplace burning wood

Some Ideas:

– Actually, I want to write, “Open my storybook and a red mushroom pops out and says to the little girl,” Would you like to have an adventure with me?” ” at the end. But I wasn’t sure if that would work, so I changed the ending. So my first thought when I finished the story was, I wanted to make a type of music that was a little bit fairy tale.

-The Ominous and the story I wrote both give me the impression that they are unrealistic and would not happen in the real world.

-I suddenly thought of the Disney Land, the place of the fairy tale. The music in there is mostly cheerful, the impression is a symphony.