Today’s class was entirely dedicated to exploring the relationship between sound and space. Once again, Robbie’s knowledge in this field is quite staggering – each week he never fails to deliver a greater depth of knowledge.

What was interesting about this class, was that it was all about creating an orchestrated, symphonic like piece with the materials we had recorded for our briefs the previous week.

For this class, we were required to have garageband on our computers in order to manipulate sounds – I decided to use Logic Pro X as I felt more comfortable and familiar with the software and programs. I proved to have chosen wisely as many people seemed to struggle with the ‘clunkiness’ of the garageband (due to no fault of their own).

Robbie showed us that we don’t need to record hours of sound in order to make something orchestrated and beautiful – in fact, we need only record seconds. Robbie demonstrated this as he isolated a certain sound design, added delay, other effects, and then reversed the sound. Combining these different techniques, Robbie was left with a myriad of different sounds, all coming together to form a disturbingly melodic piece of soundscape.

After experimenting with our own sounds, Robbie got us out of the classroom, holding our laptops, and walking around the corridors of building 13 with our volume blasting. The purpose of this was to see how all our sounds blended together within different sized spaces; how it sounded in the large hallways of the building; and in the elevator.

The class finished shortly after and my partner for PB#2, Eliza, and I decided to meet-up for coffee to discuss our plans for the brief. We ended up deciding to check out the Box Hill Brickway, which has been abandoned for some amount of decades. It is a bit illegal, but all the most interesting places seem to have that in common.

I’ve also decided that I want to visit the Larundal mental hospital, which has also been abandoned – I feel like it would be extremely interesting to check out. Something about mental trauma seems permanent; i’d love to see what I could uncover about the ghosts within that space.