Final draft of second project for Acoustic Ecology

If a Tree Falls

Bus Sighing

Radiator Starting

Birds in foreground, distant traffic sounds from across a lagoon

Bird Conversation

Walking on path next to river, passing under bridges with car traffic

Riverwalk

This is my soundscape composition work-in-progress. There is about one more minute of the background recording that I'd like to fill in with layering that isn't included here. The main challenge I'm facing is trying to make the sound more immersive/full as the layers build up in the middle, which has been tricky since I'm working with a lot of airy sounds. I'll be focusing on that moving forward since I've finished the bulk of the starting-out work like copying recordings into the right places and setting levels.

breath of (un)life

breath of (un)life - FINAL

This is the first draft for my final project. My goal moving forward is to smooth out the transition between sections (around when the ambulance siren is. Also, I recently created a sampler instrument using one of the tree xylem recordings to produce a screaming sort of effect, and I am working on incorporating that more fluidly into the second section. One of my questions for people listening to it is whether they can make out what the two most prominent voices in the first section are saying (the ones that only enter for brief moments), because I'm having trouble telling what comes across to someone who is unfamiliar with the recordings.

If a Tree Falls - Work in Progress 1

This is an updated version of my work in progress (as of Monday, 3/1). I haven't returned to revising anything from the transition on to the final section, but I've made significant enough changes to the first part that it seemed worth uploading the newer version before class. I'm considering switching gears on the first section altogether and redoing the whole thing based on a different idea, but I'm interested in seeing how this version of it comes across to listeners to help me decide what aspects to keep, edit, or remove.

If a Tree Falls - Work in Progress 2

I changed the overall length of the piece mostly by shortening the first section, and I am trying out a different approach for the first section. Other than that not too many other major changes besides experimenting with ways to make it sound like there are multiple tree "voices" in the second half of the piece.

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