The Day Before Tomorrow

Yup so today, or to be more specific, last week's day of tomorrow...

Critiques were made and the sound I made/chose for sound piece B were made by knives. However, instead of using a sound we all acknowledge within movies/cartoon I chose one that's less distinctive for people to identify. Like during the lab last week, I said the normal sound of knives appearing within a scene would be like "ka-cheee-ink", if you're able to imagine that sound then you should understand what I mean.

The other sound I chose was a recording of my friends performing like a human orchestra of Viva La Vida (original song by Coldplay). At first it was just an experiment and I got everyone to record at the same time, but as time passed...an idea sparked up.

Instead of recording everyone at the same time, I recorded each person separately and on different sides (right, left, middle). These are the sides are:

Left = Bilal: The base or "bum" in this case
Middle = Tarif: The lyrics, he's reading it and not singing it
Right = Michael: The whistling/tune of the song

Within this "recording" (bahaha), there is a normal beat to the song or for part of the song but one person messes up and start creating nonsense noise/annoyance which messes up the whole group and cussing/frustrations starts to occur.

Just today I previewed part of the sound to some friends and they said it sounded pretty realistic so I'm quite happy that it's turning out well.

Before ending this whole post for phase 3, I just like to say thank you for those who helped out recording and listening to test whether it's workable. The recordings did take a while but overall it worked out well because of the repetitiveness of the voices or literally the sound itself (like the knives one).

One problem I faced though for construction piece is that I recorded each person in different rooms and separately causing me to ensure each voice is similar enough that they can match in the same room. I'm glad that my friends are able to improv pretty well in order to match with what they hear through headphones and express how they feel if such an event of recording "live" would be to occur.

So long phase 3. Here I come phase 4 :D