#audio composition

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"Audio Composition"

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For this assignment, we had to create a "soundscape composition." I took field recordings of different sounds throughout my apartment. These included the footsteps walking up the stairs to my apartment, the sound of the key unlocking the door, and then the door opening. I also recorded the sound of the subway going by from a distance (I recorded it from my window), and glasses hitting and tapping each other. I enjoyed playing around with the idea of using these sounds to create a narrative. It all sounded a bit spooky to me, so I decided to use this as a theme in my composition. The composition begins with the subway and wind, then the footsteps walking into the building. When the door opens, a suspenseful tune starts playing, and as it gradually gets louder, I overlapped the sounds of glasses hitting each other a few times, along with the sound of a spoon in a glass. As the sound gets louder and more chaotic, it eventually stops when there is a loud sound of glass shattering followed by a telephone dial tone. I liked the idea of having a build up of sounds that were continuously getting louder throughout the whole composition, and that ended very abruptly and shockingly. I wanted the suspense in the composition to build up a lot to lead into the abrupt ending.