experience
Cameron, Jack and I were drawn to each other as soon as group work was mentioned in class, and working with them has been a great experience. We compliment each others sound well and bring a fresh take to all of our ideas which is created a great environment for experimentation. Almost straight away, we came up with themes of horror, found objects and having a story of where whatever we were about to make would come from, ideas were bountiful.
After allowing time to rest over the break, and for Cameron to come back to the uk, we got into any space we could in the uni and started recording. After a few days we had enough material to start arranging the work. We had lots of fun in these sessions and I think that comes through strongly in the work.
decision making
Making decisions within the group was an easy process. We all contributed to decisions and always seemed to be on the same page of where we wanted the project to go. Most sounds were created together in our sessions at uni (other than some voice messages sourced by Jack) and posted to our group discord after each session ended. This made the management of files effortless and we were all up to date if we could not make a session.
arrangement
We each brought a different skillset to the group which made arranging our pieces quite a natural process. Camerons history with Ableton allowed him to add the rest of the groups ideas into one file and create additional effects. Jacks more analogue feel shone through in our sessions together, his process fit well within the themes of the project. My mixed experience helped to connect hardware synthesisers with digital manipulation and effects to create the layered drones that the other pieces were based off of.
If we had more time, we would’ve liked to add to the sections in between our pieces to create more of a natural flow to the project as a whole. We also had discussions about dubbing the project onto tape or CD, which I think would complete the project. We have all expressed that we would like to work with each other in the future, even outside of university projects. It would definitely be intriguing to make something way out of all of our comfort zones together as a challenge.