This session was more to do with getting accustomed with routing the speakers in the sound room, this week using a piece by John Chowning – the inventor of FM synthesis – and figuring out the best listening method for listening to it. Gareth made it a focus to be thoughtful of where you position …
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The session this week was focused on setting up an already existing multichannel work within the M108 space, learning how the patch bay works and how the speakers correlate to eachother, how we can send sound across each in Ableton and ect. This more practical look at engaging with the medium and finding out how …
This first class was a general introduction to the module and what we are expected to produce by the end of it, and with my understanding of multichannel works being very small there was a general excitement about a new way of working with sound as a means of consuming and creating. The class was …
This week we went back over the critereas for this project and went through some some of the crit for people who weren’t able to play last session. I particularly liked Vic’s track based on 8 recordings of a snare composition that she said she was suprised the didn’t have the technical ability to play …
This week was the crit, I hadn’t realised it until I got to the classroom so I was very unprepared sadly, but it wouldn’t have made much difference anyway because the setup that was being used for the speaker system was using only a USB-C, which my laptop doesnt support, so after unsuccesfully trying to …
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This week’s session was concerned with alternative setups for Multichannel, particularly making us think about what we are composing for and how it should influence our composition choices, reminding us to be mindful of how we treat the medium when creating for it and how to use it to our best advantage. A lot of …
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This week there was intended to be a tutorial with Gareth, but had to work on the day and could not really justify missing any when things had been so rough this year financially. In my own time though, I continued forward with my track, adding some extra sounds that I would invision in a …
Another session based around practical application of plugins within the octo ring speaker setup, demonstrating how you can create effect through dispersing sound between the speakers frugly, leaving space to fill over time as a means of Diffusion based composition, and exploring how sound can travel between speakers using Ableton surround panning. A lot of …
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This week’s session I will be honest, I was not so engaged with. It was mostly to do with plugins that can be used to automate spatial panning effects around the octo ring speaker setup, as well as plugins that can emulate height through headphones. The only thing is that we were shown some of …
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This week’s session was focused on using multidirectional field recording equipment, splitting ourselves into two groups to use the Zoom F8 with a multidirectional microphone to go record spaces around campus. Our group went to the park by Elephant and Castle, standing in the middle of park water sprinkers as well as me sitting in …