FOUND SOUND

My Found Soundtrack is composed by the use of different techniques such as the creation of a recording audio, the use of ESX24 / Fairlight which was a technique that I took from the song of kate bush, " hounds of love" that basically it was an advance in the music industry for the flexibility and malleability that it allowed to musicians to do and creating, this was a great source of information. 

Also the Gated Reverb, that also comes from kate bush's material to implement an effect of the mirror in the sound of the song. The use of sound design with audio, which allowed me to change the pitch and the tempo from the audio sample, a structure, new instruments - away from pieces such as the use of the sound of vocals and the creation of instruments as the style of Stevie Wonder in his songs, and a clavinet but with different wind instruments with the same harmony. Also, the use of the environmental sound of an audio sample which creates the main sound world of this track.

 In my opinion, I think that the first technique at the beginning of the track, which was the use of recordings, in fact, It was the main source of ideas. To record an audio by the use of my voice, such as creating vocal sounds and recording with my iPhone 7 plus environmental sounds of traffic and cars, definitively increased the possibilities of using dynamics with the audio sample recorded. After, it was transformed into a new instrument. I would say that to create a melody by that audio sample as a new instrument was very difficult because It is very unusual, but it is very useful. 

The environmental sound evokes a kind of narrative that seems like someone was leaving a place or maybe, someone could be arriving at a place. That is the objective of the audio sample, to create a sense of narrative that is relating an undefined context but at the same time, we can imagine an interesting atmosphere such the sounds of vehicles and city traffic.

On the other part, when I started to use the reverb on the track with the rhythm of drums kit, definitively, the reverb helps to blend the sounds of the drums and the piano and places those instruments in the sound space that in few words made that syncopation of on beat and offbeat. In addition, they would transmit a sense of contemporaneous melody.

At the begging of the first four bars, we could identify that the audio sample of environment mixes suddenly an intro of tweed picked synth and violin's melody as a sequence of chords in E minor, which fill up the track with more harmony and starts to give sense to the melody. After, the use of the reverb blends the drum kit's snare with the instrumental intro to give more delay and dynamic. The use of compressor blends the audio with the drums and it creates a pause in the sound.

In order to the next part of the track, when the song flows we can listen then the use of the clavinet starts  with a clarinet staccato, trumpet staccato, and a flute staccato playing a sequence of chords in E minor to persuade the listener with more harmony in one octave up, furthermore I added reverb to the instruments which it does not leave any gap. Also, I started to record other audio to convert it in a new instrument with ESX24, then I put an arpeggiator that basically plays the notes added in the new instrument in an ascended and descendent scale.