My final project for the exquisite corpse ended up having a space theme/story. What I was trying to communicate with my composition was a rocket ship taking off. My story starts with a person walking down a corridor, then you can hear them putting on their space suit. Next you can hear them getting into the spaceship and getting ready for lift off. There is a buildup of beeping that culminates in the liftoff. As we are floating in space, we can hear the astronaut preparing their hyper sleep chamber and going to sleep for the long journey. The composition ends with the astronaut waking back up on their new world.
I was surprised by the reactions to my piece, the audience interpreted very differently than I intended. A lot of the comments I was seeing were saying that it had a scary, creepy vibe which I found interesting. Something I wish I could have improved with the piece was the sound mixing. I felt like there was a lot of pauses between my sounds and I was struggling to overlap the different noises. I think with a little more practice with the software I would get better. I want to learn how to play around with noise effects a little more as well. I was really surprised at what some of my other classmates were able to achieve by using effects and I think I could get better at that aspect of the software.
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