Week 6 – More Sketches
This week was another interesting week with people showing their work. Josh had made an excellent noise based piece which I thought was really cool, He had used some really harmonically dense noisy sounds and payed attention to structuring and arranging them appropriately which I thought made the piece stand out. Another piece which stood out was Kiki’s time inspired piece, I thought this had a strong concept which can be an important tool in making memorable music. While I thought some of her sounds needed to be more disguised to the listener this piece, with some work this could be really good.
I got the chance to play my latest sketch in my guitar project. This weeks piece was based around transformed sounds of my guitar using IXI Quarks (an excellent program which can be found here http://www.ixi-software.net/content/software.html). I received some useful comments on how I could improve upon this. One feeling is that my pieces are too noisy and neglect higher pitch registers, This is something I am going to take on board while working on my final pieces, while I do not agree whole heatedly on the noise issue (I personally love noise artists, see Merzbow for a good example of this), I am going to be making an effort to include a larger range of sounds to maximize the impact of the noisier sections. Another feeling was that some of the sections I make take too long to develop. This is again something I find hard to agree with totally as I am a fan more drawn out drone type music and a few people seemed to agree with me here. What I shall take from this however is to make sure that I use these drone techniques more sparingly in future.
I am going to leave this weeks entry fairly brief as I am planning on uploading my tracks to my new Divshare account which I shall post in a different blog.
