Midterm Soundclass - Mistakes

Creative Constraints

Recording Task 2

Bedroom Acoustics Outside Of Fort

Inside The Fort

With my composition, I wanted to create a juxtaposition of the more eccentric parts of my quarantine with the much more peaceful and quiet ones. There's discovery, there's birds, and as we get towards the end, there's lots of distortion.

A lot of my time by myself was spent experimenting with old newvicon tube cameras, video synthesizers, and playing with harsh noise. So quite a bit of that is included.

Vassallo_B_Sonic Diary

I noticed when using my zoom mic that there was a small hissing noise that would keep coming in and out of the audio. After playing around with it a bit, I realized that my h4 had compressors enabled that were built into the software. While this can be useful in troubling times, for critical audio I found that it made the recordings sound much less dynamic. Here i have two audio clips of me clapping, the first one has the compressors turned off and the second has them turned on. With headphones on, and with the clips adjusted to have the claps at equal volume, you can hear how much louder the background noise was with the compressors on in the second clip

Brandon Vassallo

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