CREATE A ROOM

My room is a normal size living room. This is not a small space but it’s still not very big, and there are furniture and things that absorb or reflect sounds so there is not too much reverb in this space.

This is the first time I use Audition to make a sound collage and to create a sense of space by editing sounds. It’s interesting, though not easy. At first, I just wanted to put those clips together and adjust the volume on clip level, and I didn’t use pan and reverb. When I found the material was not the perfect material to put into my piece but I thought it might be okay, which turned out that those nuances are also important. As a result, there were things that didn’t make sense in my rough edit like the environment sound was so loud that my partner thought it’s an outdoor space. To create a persuasive space by sounds is way more complicated than I thought. I had a picture before starting editing, but still, I did several changes while I was editing. When I was refining it, I added details like sounds of small impact, sounds of clothes and breathing to make it more real and to fill the gap as well. The hardest part is people walking. When another people is walking in the room is walking and the listener stays still, creating the sense of constant changes of the distance between the walking people and the listener is particularly important. When everything is from imagination and memory, things becomes difficult because I am not sure about the distance and the volume by that. After making a lot of adjustments based on suggestions and adding new elements into my editing, it’s now much better. There are a lot more to explore and experiment with functions like pitch bender, adding reverbs, and editing clips in waveform and those can be really helpful.The project was to imitate natural sounds in an actual space by using sound collage. It helps us shape our understanding if the relationship between space and sound and take it into practice.And it also helps boost our ability in using Audition to make various sound effects by applying different techniques.