Cutting it late…
October 13, 2008 by osborndave
NB: Excuse me for leaving updating my blog until less than nine hours until our next lesson, but I made a promise to my housemates that I wouldn’t go on the internet at all until we got it installed in our home!
I finished my Persona task yesterday after a careful reconsideration of my initial goals and objectives. Julio’s last lesson about automation and articulation made me more sensitive to the capabilities these dynamics can have and how they can play such a pivotal role in the of scoring a good empathetic sounding film.
After reading Chion’s idea about synchresis in Audiovision (in a book store) I became inspired to play with this theory, which is noticable at nineteen seconds in the background where with a fast-tremolo analogue synth I tried to mimic the way the old film flickers over the doll, in addition at twenty-six seconds there is a squeaky reversed guitar that I linked with the man on the bicycle.
Another example is at fourteen seconds where there is a Z shape projected through lights which I thought was reminiscent to a (very basic) constellation report, so I decided to record a glitched up bell melody because people associate a stars ‘twinkle’ this way onomatopoetically also.
I’m quite looking forward to hearing it on the uni’s soundsystem today, anyway, don’t forget to leave me some feedback!
Bonne nuit xwa
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just for the record, we won’t be assessing your classmates ! so any promises made to them can only be rewarded by them…
further, Audiovision is in our college library, your casual reading of it in a bookshop doesn’t really portray what I would call dedication to the subject…
Julio
I did try and get Audiovision out of the library but all the copies had been taken out (I have reserved a copy), also I made the promise to my housemates not my classmates.
Anyway, any feedback you have towards my soundtrack would be greatly appreciated Julio!
Regards,
Dave.
Hi Dave, I’ve watched your work and I like your attempt to get a personal interpretation, different from other works. I think your audio track is well done. May you explain please how your sound relates with Chion’s idea?
regards
giuseppe
Hi Giuseppe, thanks for the comment!
About ’synchresis’ –
If you take for example the cue I made with the man riding his bicycle to the reversed guitar: We have inherent associations to the sound of a moving bike from an early age, so my attempt was to recreate and play around with that association by instead of sampling a field recording of a bike, incorporating a guitar melody that screeches subtly through the mix.
There are more of these associations that I played around with in the clip too.
ciao
Dave