Editing on Audition

To begin with, I imported all my sounds into Audition and began sorting through them.

I knew that I wanted a few recordings that I could use as the base of my soundscape and build it up from there. I had deliberately recorded some sounds for around a minute or so, to give myself room to cut and edit and have those pieces as part of the background.

I then began to cut different sound together. I found it very difficult at first to find a rhythm to the work, maybe because it was something I'm very unfamiliar with, and it took me some time to get a foundation to my soundscape. Eventually I managed to do this, with a combination of long drawn out sounds and shorter interspersed ones, and from this point I was able to begin to build up my soundscape to something with more depth.

I didn't want the piece to be overloaded with effects, I knew with what I was trying to convey I would need a certain rawness to the sound. The effects I did use were pitch and I also experimented with echo. I decided the echo sounded to false with the rest of my sounds, but the pitch enabled me to add different dimensions to the piece that otherwise wouldn't have been there. I also tried our overlaying the sounds so it moved smoothly from section to section, and it sounded more pleasing to the ear.