Introduction to Sound Project One- Found Sound Collage

LydiaMastrangelo_FoundSoundCollage

In this soundscape, I wanted to capture the feeling of driving in the city. I tried to do this by creating a soundscape that has city sounds, like cars, trains, radios, sirens, horns, exist within the foreground, middle ground, and background. To match the fast pace of the city, I wanted the actions to happen quickly, and almost feel like a chain of events. The radio creates a beat that allows the other sounds to come in naturally, also helping to show the passing of time. Additionally, I messed around with reverb, phaser, and pitch which further emphasized the location of the sound within the space and to help differentiate the speed of different cars or trains passing by.

LydiaMastrangelo_Soundscape _City

For this project, I wanted to create a beat that felt like a Halloween song and somewhat Scooby-Doo-esque. I worked with four tracks. The drum kit, drummer, bass, and guitar on Garageband. The clicking noise used as the bass is sampled from the song Time by Pink Floyd. I worked with reverb and pitch to try and make everything sound cohesive. This was my first time trying to make an original beat so it's definitely not perfect but it was a great learning experience!

A Spooky Halloween Beat

A Spooky Beat Take 2

This story is a retelling of the birth of Aphrodite that explores modern relationships with gender. There is a combination of foley, synth, narration, and ambience. The synth was created in garageband and is used to draw the listener in/ create a tonal shift within the story. The foley and ambience is mostly recorded by myself, this includes the shells, swords, claps, etc. The fire, seagull, bubbling noises were collected from Soundly. The ambience sounds were from videos sent to me from family and friends that I converted to wav files. For editing both foley and ambience, I mostly messed around with reverb and pitch to make sure the sounds felt cohesive. For the narration, I messed around with the EQ and de-esser but found it was easy to edit since I recorded in a sound booth.