Going into this, my intent was to start to build a project purely from a stream of consciousness and play around with sounds and effects to contribute to the piece. I used Logic Pro X. I started on a completely blank canvas. I had no rough idea of where I will go or how I’ll build my piece. I started by asking my flatmate to talk some gibberish words and to read a small poem a friend had sent me into the microphone, and then I lay out the audio recordings on the timeline.
As I was aiming to achieve a fully experimental, avant-garde sound, I decided to cut up the audio recordings into completely random parts and place them in no particular order. I was left with a meaningless collection of gibberish, which was perfect as I wanted the meaning of this piece to be completely up to individual interpretation. I played around with some plugin effects, some modulation and pitch shifting, and manipulated the vocal recordings to a point of almost ridiculousness. I started experimenting with different synthesiser sounds, which was a lot of fun, and I felt these sounds brought the piece into its own interesting and perplexing little world.
I found some joy in adding some extreme echo to some of the vocal parts, as I felt no need to hold back on the experimentation. I ended up with an almost dazzling sounding synthesiser as I robustly hammered down some notes on the keyboard. The final mix of the highly mixed vocals along with the synth is nothing groundbreaking, but to me it’s startling and unlike anything I’d ever usually make.