xizhe

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/xizhe-zhang/midi-assigment It is my first time using external instruments and  synthesizers to make a sound track. I pretty much just playing around with the synthesizer effect and trying found the one like. I try to  imitating the background music of old  horror films. For me, the piano is hard to play, because I do not have any experience with  musical instrument. The synthesizer could be useful to the people who have  rudimentary knowledge of music.  In general, I prefer making sound track with MIC recording audio than  synthesizer audio.

https://soundcloud.com/xizhe-zhang/mid-term-final Description : In this sound track, the most interesting part is creating a  spacious and isolated space, and a  mysterious creature is getting out from the eggshell and exist in this space. Base on the sound effect and the sound source, the breathing and heart beating sound of the creature is shown in the first part and second part of the audio track. In the first part, this mysterious creature is just coming out of "womb", the hard beating and sound of break eggshell would give audience enough information of the environment and the creature. And the other sound source is representing the ritual practice of the birth. In the second part, this creature getting acclimatized to its new surroundings. Self-critique: As the audience could heard in the first part of the sound track, there is some awkward silence in the high frequency vibrato sound. I was cutting the audio track by mistake and I can not find t...

https://soundcloud.com/xizhe-zhang/mid I used the condenser microphone to record the sound of celery crunching, pingping ball, needle  scratching the metal surface and a wooden ruler beating the metal tank.  For the first sound environment,  I was trying give audience a sense that there is  a spacious space and something supernatural is happening in this space. For the effect, I mostly used the reverb and EQ in my audio track. First, the echo sound of the ping pang ball would reveal the space of the  environment to the audience . Secondly, the celery crunching is representing a new creature is coming out of the eggshell, then there is a sound of water dripping  on plastic bag serve as the heart beat. I used sound of needle scratching the metal surface as high frequency  sound in the audio track, and it act as  the regular observance or practice of ritual . There would be a second sound environment in the audio track. I will fi...