In keeping with the theme of going out of your comfort zone, firstly I used Reaper, a programme I am not particularly familiar with but have been wanting to practice. I found certain aspects such as being able to edit clip properties easily very useful especially for the phasing effect where I chaged playback speeds of clips playing alongside their original. Another way I stepped out of my comfort zone was not relying on effects. The piece is mostly made up of the raw recordings, panning, mix and master and playback speed. I kept the recordings raw to carry through the honest, and field discovery led concept.
I also have never used panning this much. I feel I was successful in highlighting some binaural elements within the piece with the phased pulses. The one main idea I wasnt able to carry through was looping and the concept of a cycle. I thought although creating properly phased loops would have been interesting, in only 3-5 mins it was better for my recordings to play out and highlight the variety of noies from the soma ether. Choosing to gradually crecendo to the ending was to make sure the piece didnt feel stagnant in any way, that it had a direction and momentum.
