Beginning the week, we started by exploring different sounds in our surroundings, both inside and outside, and seeing how they could be translated into drawings. I explored showing individual sounds as well as soundscapes, through words and artistically. I also took recordings of a few sounds that I came across.
After beginning to work with sounds, we had to create three 10 second soundscapes, with accompanying imagery. The first, I wanted to create a theme of a supermarket, so I worked with different sound recordings of people chatting in a shop, a rhythmic scanner beep, and a metronome. Second, I made an outdoor scape of rain at a bus stop, using rain sounds, and the noise of a bus stopping. I also experimented with using whale noises and a previous recording of a siren, to bring a more musical quality. The accompanying animation was inspired by the sound itself, featuring a man who turns into a whale to board a mysterious portal-like bus. The third soundscape was of a cooking scene. I experimented with different sections of a long recording of myself cooking, including chopping, frying, and boiling sounds. Overall I think the second one was the most successful as I experimented with it the most, and spent the most time dedicated to the visual accompaniment. I would like to have had more time to work with the others.