Cage Rattling: WEEK 6 - CC1

I approached this by downloading and opening the score on my PC. I stretched the score along the bottom of the page, then opened the 7 samples used in 'Origami' in week 3 in Audacity, as shown above. I zoomed the score so there was about 30% of it visible (below) figuring that's about 30 seconds of sound, and got to work.

30% of score = 30 seconds of sound

I planned on going for long samples, but wound up taking snippets, features, as things began to take shape and I let the score influence my decisions. I selected my regions in Audacity, trimmed, adjusted gain, saved, then undid my edit so I could keep going on the original sample. I proceeded like this until I'd been through all 7.

Region selected in Audacity

Lastly, I loaded some of the original acoustic recordings of paper sounds into Spear. Saved off as .aiff files then into Audacity to tweak gains etc ...

I had the source material to begin sequencing.

It only took about an hour and a half to do the sequence, but I put a lot of 'pre-production' thought into this one.

The samples from the folder in the screenshot above were imported into the region list in ProTools. I have left that out of the ProTools screen shots to show more of the sequence.

The process was like a frantic flourish after much thought. I went for a layering effect. Each paper image has a montage of sound, describing, but with forward motion. Never static. One moment choppy, the next lapping from side to side. Windswept and crinkly.

I followed the score, building each section, dragging samples in and out, layering until I got what I was after. I added pan and volume as I built each layer. I honestly didn't stop to think about track assignments or naming each track, as track names seemed to serve no purpose here. I looked at the clean sheet of paper and pen I'd prepared earlier.

I could see (or hear) no need for anything more. I liked everything how it was, which was one of the reasons I didn't add effects or groups. Maybe I will lose marks for this because that was probably a requirement, but I just didn't feel it needed them.