This track was compiled using two one minute pieces of audio, and tones generated in pro-tools. The two pieces of audio are of a conversation, and the other wind, car noise and footsteps. The conversation includes some key sounds, a lighter and match being lit. These sounds I have used in the track. To start the track I used white noise, added automation and inserted sound clips where the volume of the track went down. Following this I pulled a clip of myself saying ‘hope you don’t mind me recording this’. I then structured a beat using the sound of wind and a lighter and looped this beat throughout the rest of the song. Over the top of this is the remainder of the conversation, but in reverse. I have also added an automated delay to come in and out of the song. An EQ was also added to the conversation clip to make it sound like an old transistor radio. The track is a Post-Modern piece. The sounds used in the loop are organic and original but structured in the way hip hop beats are manipulated electronically. Therefore it has its own sense of irony and contradiction.

ThOMas Vanagtmaal