A Change of Direction.
Thinking I was finished this project, I saw my lecturer for a tutorial. He talked to me for a while about “loosing control” and taking myself out of my comfort zone.
We talked for a while about my interests and finally came to the conclusion I should try and compose a piece of music about golf.
Always having been classically trained, I found the thought of this quite daunting. My thoughts were to do a piece of ambient music, but then decided that was too obvious. I wanted this piece of coursework to help me overcome some issues I have with certain pieces of software, so I decided I would experiment with using the sampler, EXS24.
I still didn't know what direction I was going to take this piece, so I headed down to the local golf club and recorded all the sounds I heard. These included: The general ambience, outside (for example, trees rustling, birds and the general chatter of people)
I then moved onto the driving range and recorded the sounds around me. Unfortunately, whilst recording, a girls school arrived for a group lesson. Unfortunately, this can obviously be heard throughout the recording.
I came back home and listened back through what I had just recorded and realised I could create a rhythm section, using the different sounds I had found, down at the club.
My main inspirations were the “Blue Man Group” and “Stomp”
Although I have never actually seen the “Blue Man Group”, live, a friend went to Las Vegas a couple of months ago and came back raving about them.
I have seen “Stomp” three times, each time, discovering new elements that I had missed in the previous viewings.
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