The main feature we want to have throughout the piece is
that of repetition as we wanted to show the body has a repetitive system that
it is constantly going through. With the use of the industry sounds too we are
constructing the body to be seen as a machine.
After our meeting it was decided that Olivier and Paul would
record sound while I would stick more to the editing side. Paul took the idea
of industry to use appliances round his house to capture the sounds of the body
that we wanted for example the sound of the dishwasher. By looping the sound of
the dishwasher we were able to create the sound of a heartbeat as the main beat
to the piece so that although there’s a lot going on it showed that the body
had a set rhythm that it functioned too.
To start our audio piece we wanted to start with the sound
of a neuron firing as that is the main message signal that travels around the
body. We created this using an engraver pen as this was the closest sound we
could get to that of the scientists recording of a neuron. We incorporated this
with reverb to show that the signal around the body just carried on going.
Another sound we’ve collected so far is that of water
running down the sink. After some editing we are going to try to create this to
be similar to that of a rushing sound to simulate the sound of blood constantly
running throughout the veins and arteries.
We are going to discuss our own separate ideas on the
project when we have another editing session together next week.
