A composition I created as part of a school assignment at Dulwich College Beijing. The purpose was to compose a soundscape with limited samples and resources. I was given half an hour to record as much as I could around the school and was restricted to using only what I had recorded, Garageband, the basic effects that came with it, and the reverse function on Audacity.
I tried to build up the piece up by gradually using more and more effects, as well as increasing the level of surrealism of the resulting sound. I wanted to explore the possibilities I had with the restrictions of Garageband, and see how much I could make out of the limited sampling. I was trying to portray the feeling of being vaguely conscious, when one's physical awareness is very obscure, distorted and focusing on just small, looped snippets of sound in time. The idea was that there would be the transition from being fully mentally aware of one's audible surroundings to being just simply "Gone".



Gone

Early draft of a track that is in the works. Beginning sample is based on a guitar loop that guitarist and good friend Sung Tae Kang originally came up with, I simply took his band arrangement of it and reproduced it using one sample and several virtual instruments. I still have to complete the rest of the song, and them I'm going to have to go back, replace some of the instruments with better sounding ones, tweak sounds and effects, then finally master everything.

Sung Tae said he first came up with the beginning sample when he got "pwned in COD" and was "uber depressed about it".

Floating BAbies (in progress)

An early track I made in an attempt to mess around and get familiar with Logic Pro and a selection of plugins I had. I still need to go back to tweak and master it, but I haven't really touched it in a while. I don't even know what genre this is, I don't think I was really influenced by any particular style at the time. If anyone has any ideas, just post it in the comments below, thanks.


Lament

February 15th, 2012 Beijing Youth Orchestra World Premiere of Frustrated Nonagons - Choleric during ISCMS Lumen opening concert, conducted by Shane O'Shea

Frustrated Nonagons - Choleric Recording

Explorations: No. 3241 reading at Interlochen, read by the World Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO). 

Explorations No.3214 Reading Recording

Harker_nerVus Remix of Electric Counterpoint: Movement 3 - Fast by Steve Reich
Mastered by desco.