In the Ganzfeld Experiment film (previous post), I also observed the sounds that were used to complement the images. What I noticed was repeated through the piece was a sort of low-frequency buzzing/whirring/pulsation in various forms being used intermittently throughout the dreamlike hallucination bits. At this point in time I am not too sure how to go about achieving this exactly, but as a first step I went about recording what sounds I could in the spaces around me to see if I could imitate the sounds I heard. Here are a couple from the collection –
In the end, I couldn’t really get a sound that felt correct to me. I eventually turned to freesound.org which I found was a great resource for, well, free sounds. A quick search of ‘alien’ sounds gave me quite a big variety of the ‘low-frequency buzzing/whirring/pulsation’ I was looking for. I was particularly fond of these two:
https://www.freesound.org/people/ERH/sounds/70960/
https://www.freesound.org/people/Connum/sounds/11705/
Somewhere along the way an ADM student made some sounds –
made this soundscape for his 4D submission –
Original OSS post [here].
The original intent was to portray an idea of omnipresence – of being everywhere/in several places at once, but along the way –
…I listened to it again and it dawned on me that it sounded like someone attempting to perceive something unperceivable.
The piece begins and is sustained by a low whirring that exists in the background. It then is foreground by a selection of piano strokes which does well to imbue an uncomfortable-ness in the piece. It then moves into higher-frequency distorted sounds. Towards the end, there is a crescendo that seems climbs to a high frequency, that seems to suggest a breakthrough into sorry I am probably butchering this but another dimension/state of mind of sorts. Then the whirring. That escalates and builds. Then. End.
TLDR; it spoke to me and with permission, I will be using it.
As I had decided to use jtan304’s soundscape in certain parts of my filmic piece, I now need to find accompanying sounds that could complement existing part of the soundscape in order to maintain coherence throughout the film. What stood out to me in the soundscape were the intermittent piano strokes used throughout the piece.
I then thought of using piano melodies to sustain coherence for the rest of the film.
At this point in time I have somewhat decided on the shots I’d like to sequence, and I know that I require something that could suggest a dream-like presence or state of mind from a first person perspective. So after many years, I touched the keys again –
I played with a few chord sequences and eventually came up with these that I felt were right(ish) –
Chord sequence from Jhene Aiko’s Eternal Sunshine
Chord sequence from Eery’s Her.
V hapz 2 play muzak agn.