I used chance operations by creating a numbered list of the different sounds I wanted to use and rolling dice to choose the sounds for me. While doing our Noise Project, I got a feel of the different effects that I liked, so I created a second numbered list of my favorite effects. Once I had rolled the dice and had my sounds chosen, I rolled the dice again to determine what effects I would use on a particular sound. Since my piece is about a minute long, I made a third list in 10 second increments and rolled a dice to determine where I put the silence in my piece.

Etude 1 - Water

The editing exercise that I chose to do was the sound scene and being that I'm from the east coast, I immediately knew that the scene I wanted to recreate was one that is very close to my heart and was part of my daily routine when I lived back home and that is a walk on the beach. The two mixing exercises that I included in my piece are the "Volume and Pan" and the "Time-Based Effect." I chose these two because they could easily fit into my sound scene. When walking on the beach, you don't hear a bunch of different sounds all at once - it depends on how populated that section of beach is. Sometimes when you're taking a long walk on the beach, you just hear your own footsteps crunching in the sand with the waves at a constant drone, or sometimes you hear children playing in the water and adults conversing with one another. The more you walk, the more these sounds fade in and out.

Etude #2 - Walk On The Beach

I created this sound my starting with making a white noise sound and then layering different effects on top of the sound. I used paulstretch, distortion, reverb, and adjusted the EQ to reduce the distortion.

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