After receiving critique on this piece and after critiquing other pieces, I am still satisfied with how it ended up but I have a few things I would change if I were to redo this project in the future. My goal of this piece was to tell a story of a very bland day, (making coffee, washing machine running, leaving the house, walking around in the snow, passing cars and people talking etc...) and then include a transition into the same sounds but with more effects added in a way that would make the day seem just a little bit off. I started with a progression of sounds and then used the sample called "bubbles" to transition into the next section.
A lot of people interpreted this part as me getting high, which was not necessarily my intention but it does still convey the theme I was sort of going for. I used the sample mostly because I liked that with effects added it sounded like the listener was underwater, in my head I pictured like a wet portal, maybe like you stepped into a puddle on the ground and it took you to a different dimension. I think I could have used more effects on that particular sound to push that feeling because it still sounded a lot like a bong rip, which in a metaphorical sense I guess is a lot like what my intention was.
After the "bubbles" sound, I rearranged the first half of the song so that all the sounds would play again in the opposite order of how they started. I wanted it to be like you stepped through this portal, and walked back home to where we started.
I added more effects on this section to try and distort the sounds I had already used in a way that would be familiar but also eerie and slightly off. I think based on a lot of feedback that I could have pushed those effects a lot farther in order to amplify that feeling. In general, I think this was a successful piece, and in the future with a little bit more practice on Audition I could push it even further.
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