We opened the tutorial today by listening to this ominous little number by Alan Lamb.

The main theme was the manipulation of sounds. It was interesting to explore the idea that even the tiniest sound can be amplified and modulated to create a larger effect. For example, we took the sound of a guitar being slapped and manipulated it. The original sound alone was less than a second, but after

– Delay

– Echo

– Reverb

– Reversing

– Lengthening

– Redelaying

– ReReverbing

It sounded nothing like the original. Have a listen for yourself…

Everybody in the class meanwhile was working on their own sound. While I used a guitar slap others used bells, footsteps, key sounds, anything they had. We then played all our manipulated sounds at once and walked into the buildings elevator.

We created a strange symphony of sound which was interestingly disturbing…