My original sound piece, From Under To Above , is a sonic journey of confusion to clarity. It’s aim is to inspire a captivating story within the imagination of the listener. The art of telling a story through sound and music enthrals me. Lyricism is something that contributes massively to storytelling through sound, but when this is removed a door to the unknown is opened and anything is possible. I created my piece with the intention of setting a moody atmosphere; a place of bizarreness and maybe even uncomfortableness. I enjoy taking the listener on a journey that feels foreign, but in that foreignness comes the excitement. I remember hearing the song Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles when I was an early teenager. There was something about the hard left and right panning that instantaneously moved me into a new and compelling atmosphere. The idea of different sounds existing on different sides of your consciousness excites me, and I implemented this into my piece. I also experimented with some modulation plugin effects, including a phaser, a tremolo and a chorus plugin. Playing with sound in this way is something I am somewhat new to and during the process I dealt with some unsureness. I encountered a few hurdles while trying to decide if the effects were taking the piece in the direction I wanted for it, but this uncertainty became the reason I decided to use them – I am learning all the time that unpredictability leads to anticipation and anticipation is entertainment – and I want the listener to be entertained overall. Towards the end we come to a soft closing, a melodic resolution. From Under To Above aims to provide a journey of perplexity, enhanced by the modulation effects and overdriven distortion, to a serene and musical resolution. Towards the end, the debris of distortion is left over but fades slowly into quiet and then we are left with nothing but the story our imagination told us.