TRIMPIN: the sound of invention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpENG_qRXE&feature=player_embedded#!
the man on here is pretty cool in the way hes created a large instrument and experiments with sounds that no one else has thought of doing before. the sounds that come from this sound very sci-fi and surreal and it shows that sounds can be created in different ways, even by experimenting with previous instruments there are about.

Motion and Audio Experiments Video

http://vimeo.com/1619106

after finding this link on the internet, I found this video really interesting in the way it looks at the use of accompanying sound and music in the way it reflects what is being shown. By this i mean, the word 'Crush' is animated using sound effects we'd associate with this word to back up the meaning and action within the clip. If a more calmer tone was used, it probably wouldn't hav desired affect of appearing to 'crush' or explode.

sense of space project-our idea.

Our idea was basically to get the sound of effects for a murder/ raid. we recorded our footage over 2 days gathering noises from the roads, the rainfall a busy city centre as well as lots of car noises, footsteps, digging sounds and many more.

Our story was about a man who the audience doesn't know any thing about. you hear him get into a car and start driving. there is then a loud banging at the door, we hear a man scream and what sounds like a sword to this house owners chest. the man continues to murder him by smashing his skull. these noises were created by us smashing a pumpkin with a bat. the man then enters the house and trashes the place as if he looking for something. we then hear the man drag the body to his car and he drives away. He then gets out of his car and it is raining heavily, we hear the body being dragged across the floor. there is then a pause. this was to help the tension build up. we then hear loud digging noises, this goes on for a few seconds just before we hear sirens coming in from behind. these police sirens get louder and louder and then it suddenly ends.

we used quite a few atmosphere tracks to get a good ambient sound through out the whole story.

Chris Watson

http://www.chriswatson.net/
Chris Watson. net allowed me to look more closely at the sounds captured by the sound artist Chris Watson. seems a lot of his works capture the sounds most associated with natural environment, creating peaceful and natural images in the listener's head. A lot of his sounds capture birds and sounds we are so use to hearing we overlook and dont pay attention too as they are really familiar. Only when we hear these sounds (bird calling, wind, bell chimes) out of context, when we're not actually in that setting but maybe in the comfort of our own home do we pay attention to what we first would have missed.

Favourite sounds research

on StumbleUpon I came across this website. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2SGJ5Z/favoritechicagosounds.com/soundmaps.php/ it shows the creators explorin sounds with the use of a map of Chicago.  explore what sounds people prefer all over the city. This to me is an interesting and very visually exciting way of storing the sound preferences ofpeople, and looking at sounds other people might ignore and storing it all together. This could be very valuable information because if someone wanted to create sound or use sound within a piece of film or music they would want to know what their audience likes or links different noises with. each snippet of conversation is also very interesting to read by itself.