BACKING TRACK

Nicola and I discussed ideas for the music behind our track and video. It would be good to use the format of the LRRH story so we have crackling of twigs at the start, representing LRRH walking through the woods, etc. and birds cheaping at the end to symbolise a happy ending, that of enlightenment with sounds that are bright and sunny. We planned on getting these sounds from the original samples that were spoken and using various programs such as Spear, Soundhack and Logic. I want to use some of the words onamatopoeically, to bring even more sense of unification to the project. Words like 'conspired' can be used as a whisper too to mimic the action. This made us think of witches, which then brought me back to the Ganguro girls....another type is a yamanba (mountain hag) so we could look up japanese music, film, folklore, etc for extra input.
The length of the song should be about 3 mins for a decent length and the structure could maybe include 1 min intro with sounds collecting the ideas of the story together, 1 min vocal line (we could split this into 2 verses, 30 secs each) 30 secs for the chorus, which will be made from the original samples or possibly mix around the vocal line and 30 secs for the ending. We agreed that the vocal line will get re-recorded.
We went to the IMAC suite at conservatoire to use the music programs. We worked independently for a change to see what we would come up with for different parts of the tune

Firstly i worked with Soundhack and took each sample individually and play with the effects. Once i had saved a few that i liked i put them into Logic to play them one after the other. One of the samples came out really well, like a deep long growl (the wolf!) even though my story has a man instead of a wolf i see the two as the same thing. I layered some other sounds on top of the growl and saved the line. I then got Spear up, which is fantastic for film music in my opinion. This is one program i will definately use when making films. You load up your sample, which looks like a load of small chopped up lines. You can then chop bits or chunks out of it, timestretch it, change the frequencies, overlap them and all sorts of brilliant things. I really enjoyed working with the different audio programs today and will continue it tomorrow. Nicola and I listened to what each other had come up with and were very pleased. To see the video of our completed dance triggering the samples look HERE.