First Editing Exercise GBDA229

Our ambient piece is designed for a warm, summer evening while sitting on the front porch of a house in the countryside. The calm and peacefulness of the environment makes it suitable for such a piece to be carried out and blended in with the nature that surrounds the individual such as the rustling of leaves, creak of the wooden deck and buzzing of fireflies. The ambient composition we created is a continuous piece that repeats the same sounds and melodies, in which nothing is missed if the individual decides to tune in during a specific time in the evening. It acts as background music that will not disrupt what the listener is doing during a particular moment. Our piece, in essence, enhances the atmosphere and establishes the tranquil mood in which they feel.
 
We want you to focus on the eeriness of the song, specifically the part where we incorporated our own recording of a faint whistle of a short melody. It occurs intermittently in between the harp sounds at 0:30 – 0:33, 1:33 – 1:45 and 2:34 – 2:44. Through the use of the Stretch and Pitch effect in Audition, we were able to remove the higher frequencies in the sound recording and adjust the pitch and EQ to imitate the distorted sounds of a hooting owl. In addition, the harmonic chords and harps played throughout the duration of the entire piece enhance the tone and atmospheric value of the space they are in.
 
By exercising the parametric equalizer into our approach, we were able to cut off the high frequencies of the harp melody and background bass sounds. The creation of the distorted chords was developed through paulstretching in Audacity at a stretch factor of 10 and time resolution at 0.25. Adjusting the EQ and adding the Paulstretch enabled us to generate this eerie composition to complement this setting. 

CITATIONS

Atmospheric Background Ambience by Bradovic:
http://www.freesound.org/people/Bradovic/sounds/179896/

Distorted Chords by keinzweiter: https://www.freesound.org/people/keinzweiter/sounds/253171/ 

Synthesized Bass Beat by ERH:
http://www.freesound.org/people/ERH/sounds/53941/ 

Thumb Harp by vrodge: 
http://www.freesound.org/people/vrodge/sounds/119548/


SophiaChan