Sound Design for 'Continuum'

Working on the laptop with Spectrasonics Atmospheres- an incredible virtual instrument plug in. Getting more sounds for 'Continuum' and using them as a base to design new sounds to use in the piece.

Starting to arrange the first drafts for 'Continuum' in Logic Pro

Starting to populate the arrangement with all kinds of wierd and wonderful sounds! I spent a day or so working in Ableton Live, doing Sound Design for this project. Taking pre-recorded material obtained from the Newburn Surgery, and other sounds from the Logic library. I played with them, using all the editing tools available until they started to change into what i was wanting to hear. From there they were imported into Logic and used in this first section, doing yet more editing to get them just right. Some of the sounds i worked with were Heartbeats, Pulse's, Debris Falling, Frying Bacon, Pouring Milk onto Cereal, Gurgling Water, all of these were treated with heavy Sound Design to change them into 'internal body' sounds. Ben and myself had 3 sessions following this and we included some sounds he worked on with Reaktor and MAX/MSP's Lloop.

First drafts for the piece. Going off the first brief given by Paul Grimmer, i sat with Logic and started to gather sounds to map out the first section of the piece.

Please check out more about this project...

http://paulgrimmer.blogspot.com/

http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/benfreeth/blog/

Doing some Sound Design for 'Continuum' with Ableton Live

In darkness, trying to get in the mood and create an atmosphere in the studio for creating some very dark, dissonant sounds to be used in the first section of the Soundscape.
Sound Design using the recordings obtained at the surgery. Taking the raw sounds and morphing them using different effects, cutting, reversing and other powerful editing tools to create new sounds.