Panning Automation
Very exciting day today!!! as I started to work on the surround panning for my Kinetic piece. I hope to show the fully automated piece in wednesdays class. Even as I started to automate phrases across my makeshift 4 channel setup I could feel the piece really come to life. Some of the sounds I am using lend themselves so well to this sort of surround automation, most of the time it seemed as though the sounds are telling me how they should move through space rather then the other way around. This is a very rewarding style of composition indeed. I used a basic theme of sounds entering from the back of the space and leaving through the front. While a majority of the larger sound objects do this a few of the smaller ones seem to be on their own trajectory! Which keeps things interesting and plays on the listeners expectations.
While doing this It seems to me that I could maybe simplify the piece somewhat, as i feel if i removed some of the layers the sound objects would have more space to occupy and thus make the piece more effective. I shall be interested to hear if other members of the class agree on wednesday.
