Intermedia

https://soundcloud.com/jeremiahcory/drums-in-arts-195

By: Benjamin Grenier

Going into the project, I appreciated the absolute randomness of the sample selection process. It was exciting to create something out of such a limited focus. That being said, I wasn’t very excited about my samples, because I got two of my own. But the others that I picked were very interesting. I started out trying to make something that uses repetition as a sort of rhythm, whether or not each track found the same beat. I used a lot of effects, changed pitch and speed, and reversed sections of samples to create a slow motion, dizzy, out of reality piece. I tried to combine busy sounds with intermittent silence to try and recreate the sensation of vision unfocusing and refocusing in a mellow, catatonic way. I ended up liking the way the effects worked differently in different places, and how the modified sounds maintained the feeling of time passing regardless of whether they were played forward or reversed.

Chris Barlow

1 pixel = 1 second
Light Blue = Ambient noise
Dark Blue = Chittering
Yellow = Pattering
Pink = Melody
Purple = Thwack
Orange = Kick
Red = Scoop

by Jess Vos