MD6402 Experimental Audio - Lauren Samuels

My final piece was, in fact, an experimental piece on Real life crime. I personally feel the piece works well as an experimental piece. I consistently tried to avoid a narrative throughout the piece so that my piece wasn't about an obvious topic and my audience could listen to it and figure it out. I enjoyed creating this piece as it was about a topic that greatly interests me which making the hours-long effort of trawling through audio pieces worth it. This is a genre of which I always enjoy working with and will use the skills learned in this module to continue to advance my skills in a medium I greatly enjoy. I will link my final sound piece below.

In my piece, I used some effects to change how it sounds as in some cases I wanted a sound piece to seem as if it was recorded from someone talking on the phone. I used both EQ and reverb to get my desired sounds throughout the piece. Above is my example of using EQ in my work. This is the EQ used on both the first and second track, I used the same effect. The settings for the EQ shown here are used to make it sound like a phone call. Firstly I wanted to give my telephone ring a grittier sound and I wanted it to match my second track which is someone talking about their ordeal. Above you can now see more EQ that I used on a different track which I used for most of the news reports to make them sound more like a radio feature although it did not have that large of an effect. In the above two screenshots, I wanted to show my use of Air Reverb however when brought up in pro tools again it seemed to say that I did not have the plugin and I am unsure as to wh...