Experimentation with Adobe Audition - 02/11/2023

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 During today's session we were tasked with utilising the programme Adobe Audition to create a pattern-like sound montage using many different sound samples of television recordings provided to us by our lecturer Steve. Previously we had experimented with sound patterns in Adobe Premiere Pro using audio clips we recorded both around the university campus and from the previous weekend outside of the uni. For me this mainly consisted of sounds such as footsteps, wind sounds, the sounds of a train and some construction noises I recorded while out in London. Today however we were instead using the aforementioned Adobe Audition, a solely sound design based programme, using sound samples from television shows and advertisements Steve recorded and provided to us. Below is a screenshot of the multi-track view of my attempt at creating a pattern-like sound composition.

My main idea for the pattern was mainly to use certain samples to create a melodic base for the rest of the composition to work off of, being a basic beat at the top from a song sample, a snare from the sound of a gunshot, and a bass from what I assumed was a church choir. Another trick I attempted to employ in the track was sentence mixing, in which I cut up several short voice clips from various people in order to form a semi-cohesive line of dialogue, being "Move for the future, the new approaches, just wait here for me, just wait, just wait, just wait." As the samples I used as the base track had a sort of futuristic feel to them, and so I felt like this was appropriate. I also experimented with pitch shifting and reverb affects for certain parts of the sentence mixing to add a bit more variety to the track, mainly placed on the "Just wait" part at the end of the pattern being repeated, going down in pitch with every repetition.

While it generally doesn't sound too bad, there are still things I believe I could've done better, mainly focusing less on forming a collective rhythm and more on making the composition sound more like a siren or alarm, like some example audio clips we were shown in our lecture. My end product is very much a result of my preferring a more structured approach to audio design, thought this experience has certainly helped me in broadening my ideas towards sound design as a whole, and I will hopefully be able to use what I've learned today in future artefacts that I'll produce throughout my time on the course. 

Below is a link to a google drive file containing the Audition file for my session.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18AgcyQU51P7Xb2aRtGBKgdogX1QfpucY/view?usp=sharing

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