Found Sounds

Making a sound scape with recordings I've made while out and about.

Looking at bird song, rain, church bells, buskers

and sampling small parts and layering them via reaper music software on my lap top.

I've ordered a motion sensor playback device. I can upload the sounds into this and use it as part if my exhibition piece to add a dimension of sound and make a more immersive work.

Waiting for this to arrive to transfer my sound scape to.
Should work well in the exhibition as it's motion activated.

I'm treating the sounds in a similar way to my other materials in this project.They are foraged nature sounds and lm looping a particular part of a bird song melody and adding reverb. I've  layered  chattering of birds to merge and panned out the sound so there's a depth and varied direction.

I'm using a focusrite interface with reaper music software. Plugging my phone straight into the interface to lift the  outdoor sound samples I captured on the phones recorder app.

Screen shots from my phone recording app.
Showing the loop section of bird song. 
Once you select an area this plays on repeat. I fed this straight into track one.

Screen shot of another bird sound added this to layer as another track.

Edit:  The speaker quality was not great and no volume control. When testing it in the space knew it was too loud so I was going to make a quieter mix on the recording software so as not to take over the whole room with the sound or alternativly It could be improved with a better speaker at a lower volume. However it's probably just not a good idea for the exhibition given the feed back I received while testing.

 I wanted to inlculde sound to represent folk song .Ive been writing songs and researching Traditional folk music throughout this project as music is such a massive part of folk celebration and ritual. Bird song is nature's song so seems a obvious choice especially with the eggs and feathers used to make the work.

All the bird songs are from locations I've visited during research etc. Also have lots of other sounds I've collected