Soundscape; What I want to create

I firstly looked at creating a sound scape of the Brighton beach and the surrounding areas specifically looking at the liveliness of the sea and the sounds it can create. After some time I decided that this was very generic and done before so I invested looking into something else. I thought about the sounds the brain make its self and its ability to captivate someone in their sleep through a nightmare. Therefore, I looked into creating sounds using my bedroom and a foley take on things.  

Interview; What I want to create

My first decisions was to create an interview from my friend Chloe who has two tattoos from Brighton by two different artists I would ask her;

• where she got them?
• what made her come to Brighton specifically?
• why people get tattoos?
• why there is still today people against tattoos?

I thought this would be a good topic to look at as Brighton is a large scenic area for tattoos and many people travel to Brighton directly to get tattoos from an artist cause it's so well known here. She is also very articulate and her parents do not particularly like tattoos so she is able to give an opinion of someone who doesn't like her own tattoos. 

Project Brief

 

This project is divided in to two sections, the first will support your understanding of digital audio recording and editing in the production of a sound library and soundscape, whilst the second will and apply these skills to a short interview.

 

Part #1

You are required to plan, research and produce a two to five minute ‘audio soundscape’ or ‘acoustic portrait’ of a geographical place of your choice. This will include a range of self-sourced associated or abstract sounds that help illustrate the space.

 

Part #2

You are required to submit a three-minute edited interview with a single individual of your choice for presentation on local radio. You must choose someone who you feel has something to say to the Brighton & Hove community.

 

During the term you will give a presentation on a Radio/Sound practitioner focusing on their area of importance or influence, the PowerPoint/Prezzi file and your notes must be submitted.

 

You must also submit a typed, 500 word, statement which critically introduces your submitted project work locating it contextually, theoretically and aesthetically.

 

Going to a sound exhibition

We were able to visit a sound exhibition at the university and it was so interesting to see what sound creators were making and also the teachers at the university who also had a few exhibitions and we really got to see what would be teaching us in the future and how creative they are. My favorite piece was a huge displace of copper wire that when moved created loads of different sounds depending on what you touched, it was so captivating and different to what I have seen before.

Trying the mircophones (clip)

Contact Microphone (clip)

http://www.zzounds.com/productreview--KORCM100L

Clip Microphone (suction cup)

http://www.smcelectronics.com/tel.htm

Hydrophone

 http://wikis.evergreen.edu/computing/index.php/DolphinEar/PRO_Hydrophone_Operating_Guide                                                                                                                                                                                

Contact Microphones

In the session today we experimented with many different types of microphones to test out what sounds we could create and investigate what objects project sound that the human ear may not detected. The first microphone was the Hydrophone; a waterproof microphone. This was a very different shaped microphone with an interesting shape like a miniature flying pan in a sense. Me and my partner first went to the water bottle filling station where we lightly dripped the water on to the head of the microphone, whilst also picking up the sound of the bubbles protruding from the water tank above. This created a real strange combination of sounds and really gave the water its own sound world. The second microphone was a Clip Microphone. Me and my partner were not able to work with this microphone specifically but in the class it was presented that that its just a small mic that can 'clip' to many places and pick up the sounds of the world around it. This could be interpreted as being clipped onto a tree of such and collect all the sounds the appear in the woods like birds a wind through the leaves etc. Lastly was a Contact Microphone with a suction cup that is used for picking up electrical currents. Placing this on a plug socket or a mobile phone created this high pitch buzzing and screeching noise that shows the power and the electricity powering through the devise's. The sound was so interesting cause it was impossible to hear naturally and really gives you an insight into how there is so much sound happening around us all the time.