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This is a sound walk from the 14th of February 2021

It was created for the Sonic Art module in my second year at the RCS. 

Project Description:
This project aimed to encapsulate two walks at different times on the 14th of February 2021.
The narrator talks the listener through their walk around their home town at two different points in a day, one being a bright but chilly winters day and the other that evening once the snow starts to recede into water and ice.

The narrator focuses largely on water and birds as their topic of focus separate at first then closing with the two coming together.


Technical Process:

All assets were recorded on an iPhone 11 into Garageband, using a lightning to headphone adapter to allow monitoring without introducing a second microphone to the system as would be the case with using Bluetooth headphones/earphones.
These were then edited together in a Logic Pro 9 Session this was done by exporting out individual track from Garageband before transferring them to Logic Pro 9.

Editing in Logic Pro 9 allowed for finer editing than in Garageband as well as the application of more complex effects such as emulating binaural recordings which play a large part in this work.

I hope you enjoy the final result.

*Recording/Editing process images to follow*


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