Soundscape and Soundscape Critiques!

Here is the soundscape assignment for MDIA 203, enjoy!




Here is my comment on Sammantha William's Blog:
My comment on Adava Gerace's Blog:
My comment on Isabella's Blog:

2 comments:

  1. A nice soundscape!
    The reverb guitar sound creates an engaging emotion for listeners. It also give listeners a sense of distance and movement because the volume and repeated guitar melody. The similar guitar melody had been put into right order to create some kind of familiar but loss feeling, which is a good foreshadow of your targeted emotion, anticipation. In the middle of the soundscape, you have some kind of beats come into the music, which create a tension, also hook and imply your theme again. Your continuation goes a different but smooth way. I like your transitions. I do like your directionality as well. The music gave me a very clearly directive feeling because you separated the sound tracks. There is part of your soundscape your beats and guitar take turn to be played. When the beats are playing, the guitar fades out. When the guitar comes to play, the beats fade out. Then, they both come back together. Such technique will give me a feeling of unknown, which gets my attention to keep listening. The proximity of the interchange playing was controlled right enough. Neither too much nor too little.
    I like your soundscape! It is a good one with brilliant ideas in it.

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  2. Through the manipulation of both space and time, this soundscape successfully captures the emotion of anticipation. Beginning softly and at a slower tempo, the soundscape picks up both speed and volume as it continues. I perceived this as someone’s anticipation growing. The addition of a guitar and drum kit helps to push the tempo even faster; within the first 30 seconds there is a dramatic increase in its speed. As the tempo is constantly pushed forward, it develops a driving force carried throughout the entirety of the soundscape. This helps to represent movement, distance and directionality, as well as anxiety that can develop with anticipation. The guitar, drums, and beginning melody are then taken out. These sounds are then brought back in (and taken out again at various times), and a new guitar track is added. I feel this technique not only represents the various levels of stress that can be felt with anticipation, but it also represents the passing of time. Each section carries the same theme and continues the constant driving force forward. As the soundscape ends, all other sounds are faded away. We are then left with just the beginning melody, which begins to decrease in tempo and volume. This is the exact opposite of how the soundscape began, showing someone’s anticipation being relieved.

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