BLOG 3B Soundscape

Alex Boyle
I really like how your soundscape starts with the use of just a drum set. It makes the listener seem like they are in an open space just listening to a drum set through the use of reverb. Then the piano is introduced and the song becomes much more full. Once the synth starts looping over the drum beat it gives the illusion that much more is happening, yet there is actually only two different instruments. Through the song small sounds are added to the song, although they are to loud they help add more to the soundscape. I really like how the “dubstep” feel this song has. It keeps a very relaxed tempo throughout the song. I also really like how you used long ominous tones to stretch out each measure, and make it seem like time has been slowed down. The outro matches very well with the intro. The drum solo starts off the song and is used as a transition into the song and at the end of the song the use of a synth is used as an ending transition. Despite only using, at most, three sound layers, the song sounds much fuller and gives a very compact sense of space.

Harrison Cummings
At first, when you started with the use of a rock drum beat I thought a guitar or piano was going to follow. But the use of some exotic instrument completely threw me off and the two mashed very well. The bass loop helped make the song seem much more full. I really liked how diverse this soundscape is. Many different instruments that we don’t always hear, you were able to work together to make a upbeat instrumental. I also liked how it was very un-repetitive. After a few seconds a new instrument was introduced which kept the song interesting. I also like how the tempo remained constant and how many different pitches there were. My favorite was that throughout the song the sounds came from different angles. While one sound would be playing on the left, a sound from the right side would start, creating a really full sound then gradually transitioning into a much a simple sound of one instrument over a constant drumbeat. The ending guitar picking ended the song very nicely and not abruptly by fading out and ending on one note. The song had lot of diversity to it and was fun to listen to.

Ian Bullington
For the first few seconds I thought the song was going to be a very slow depressing song. The guitar picking takes up very little space, but then a dark tone starts making the song much more full and it reinforces the depressing tone, then a drum beat starts increasing the tempo and building up the song then the song completely changes up the mood but introducing horns and a loud bass loop. The instruments fluctuate in volume and I can hear a slight reverb. Then all the sounds slowly fade out and there is a brief pause which at first I thought it was just ending short, but then a second part of the soundscape starts. Another slow and depressing loop starts but is quickly built up by a techno synth. The second part of this song is much more full and takes up a lot more space. The volume seems to be changing a lot and the tempo is a lot faster than the beginning. It seems like a lot of commotion is going on through the use of just a couple of sounds. But put together they make a much fuller sound than if they were used in a different context.