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This week we recorded our instillation pieces. I was very happy with the result, the spread of elements of the song worked very well across the speakers. I feel that a bit louder and in a darker-lit and more ambient environment, the track would have been very emotional and brooding. I think it worked better…

when considering the instillation, I decided I wanted to approach it from a more musical standpoint. I struggle with a non musical approach, so wanted to come at this brief with a composed song. I remembered an exhibition I went to at the museum of London in 2019, showcasing memorabilia of the clash. The part…

While watching the second season of Netflix’s ‘squid games’, the soundtrack really stood out to me. The first season also had incredible sound design and music, however it felt ramped out and more boisterous this season. The shows theme song ‘way back then’, starts off with a 3 3 7 percussive rhythm, a traditional South…

No Mans Sky music analysis No mans sky’s music is very unique, not necessarily within itself, but in the way it’s assembled and the degree of interact-ability with the gameplay, drawing parallels to installation music. The soundtrack was created by the band 65daysofstatic, who submitted 10 complete compositions. In addition, they submitted all the individual…

Week 6’s class took a further look at video game sound, and interaction. The aim was to start making sounds that were activated by in game activities, such as background music from localised speakers in game, characters making noises, and other foley-esque sounds within the game. I concentrated on furthering my scoring for the game…

In week 5, we discussed composing for interactive media, covering video games and instillations. We discussed how this can create a greater challenge for musicians, as it removes a layer of control that’s given to potential non musicians. This came to conclusions such as removing some freedom from the participant, thus ensuring the result would…

In week 4, we further explored spectral sounds using a software called Spear. we uploaded audio to it, and it would show us the frequencies that made up the sound. The darker frequencies shown were louder or more prominent, the fundamentals, and the lighter/softer frequencies were often just harmonic noise created within the recording of…

This week we started working on the next brief, film and TV. We were introduced to underscoring and orchestration, working with a cello in class. We learnt different bowing and plucking techniques, and my personal favourite was bowing slowly and close to the bridge of the cello, as it created a strange flanger-esque sound similar…

In todays second lesson focusing on composition for animation, we discussed the two techniques of ‘Mickey mousing’ and ‘leitmotifs’. I was already familiar with the concept of a leitmotif, a certain melody or musical idea that symbolises or connects to a certain character, place, time or other story element. We discussed its use in lord…

In our second lesson we discussed composition for media further, starting to dig into the scenes we had each chosen. For me this was the cooking scene from Howls Moving Castle. We discussed the principles of ‘Hollywood harmony’, which is the idea of thinking solely about the feelings given by the chords rather than the…