Drowning In The Flood: It's A Soundscape!

Short update today, but here we have Drowning In The Flood, the experimental soundscape I helped make for my Radio module.

Click here to listen to it, yo.

The aims for it were fairly simple; we set out to create a narrative of a protagonist rejecting the cacophony of above-ground and finding a harmony beneath the waves. We wanted to show the contrast between the two worlds, as well as see if a narrative could be established using just ambient sounds.

The group - consisting of me, Jason Baster, Luke Clarke, and this one cunt called Bing, recorded a ton of different things for the soundscape. The most fun part was the first thing we did, where we got a big plastic box, filled it with water, and recorded our heads being dunked into it, as well as coming out and gasping for air. We made a mess and Bing's flatmates loved us for it. We also recorded heavy breathing as well as random banging and ambient background conversation sounds and stuff, a lot of which made it in. Most of the distortion you hear throughout the piece was done with Luke's awesomely fun amp and a guitar and a whammy bar. Some of the music you hear was done by putting Luke's headphones on the pickups of the guitar, so it came out of the amp and created the really sweet effect of almost making it seem like it's coming from a broken radio.

After recording, Bing edited the whole thing together into what you hear there, with the rest of us offering ideas and generally hanging around and being cool. You know, my usual MO. We then got to write the paperwork and made ourselves sound mega pretentious when describing the piece. It was fun!

Not much else to report on as we've just had a week off, but there's stuff coming up soon with Mute and Production Planning and all that. Be sure to look for more updates!