This a singular view of my piece "Spellbound" created for our CW1 Project assessment. 

For this piece we were instructed to create a song using one sound source, 

I chose to use my vocals. I experimented with different recording techniques and perfected pro microphone set ups during this project. I decided after all to use the inbuilt microphone, 

as it added a  less perfect texture, it was more grainy and interesting. Also it picked up faint traffic sounds and noises from outside the building. These when manipulated along with the fundamental and partial frequencies of my voice were stretched into what sounded like a crowd of voices, fascinating! 

There was a little trill tweeting from a bird too which to my astonishment was picked up by the inbuilt mac microphone from all the way outside through double glazed windows! 

The whistle of these natural sounds were embellished vet hess process, some turned into clicks, interspersed with the whirring and low hum of the cars which brought really varied and exciting results, lots of tonal interest and quality. As a singer sometimes one is shy or doesn't like the sound of ones voice. 

I've always been aware that I have quite a high pitched speaking voice too, though you get use to your own sound when you mature and become comfortable in your skin as a performer. I loved playing with the pitch and transforming my vocals into deeper and deeper layers during this, the scope to create and change characters and sounds whilst working solo is liberating. 

It was too much fun to stop at making totally opposite male-like frequencies, so I took them even lower on some of the tracks to get an ominous Gregorian Monk chanting or warlockesque sound. 

I used some echo and reverb to take the sounds further back and make them vast specially with view to creating giant hollow caves where the unidentified multiple voices were praying or casting spells. 

I feel that I successfully rode the wave between sounds of the hypnotic occult and sounds of deep meditative prayer in this soundscape. The track represents my deep rooted religious and spiritual beliefs and the forbidden magnetic draw that calls powerfully from  darker arts. Very pleased with the result. 

We had a time constraint of 2 minutes to hand as for assessment which is never enough! I've carried on with my piece and it is evolving so far as a 16 minute piece which will forever be evolving and shifting I suspect.

https://soundcloud.com/kimnicebutgrim/spellbound
"A third tradition starts from timbre. This type of musician is harder to pin down,
for the simple reason that many timbre- focused artists do not consider themselves
to be musicians at all, or do not use the word ‘music’ to describe what they produce. Into this category can be placed the majority of those working in electronic
and electro- acoustic1 music, but also sonic art, sound- art, sound design and various forms of radiophonic 2 and speech- based work. By dealing with sounds rather than notes , these musicians have changed the nature of music itself, raising questions about what is ‘musical’. The conventions of music seem inadequate to describe
their activities. These musicians may even begin to challenge music’s very existence, since so much of their prime material is audio and lacks the expressive
intention and cultural baggage of ‘music’." (Huggill, A. Digital Musician)