After going to the Thames and recording some sounds I decided to mess around on Ableton without any direction and just see where things lead to. I went through my field recordings and starter layering sounds, pitching, and time stretching. Added a reverb send and started creating an atmosphere/drone sound.
I then added two synthesisers, one a really trebly low end ish long 1980s SciFi-sounding chord. After a higher-pitched lead line. It ended up sounding really cinematic, and it’s made me consider perhaps doing sound for something? A short animation? Also, it was very ambient, can I use field recordings in ambient music? Am I into ambient music? Does making this actually interest me? I’ve been considering if I prefer the actual practice of field recording, the meditative listening aspect to using them in art pieces. I need to research further into avenues around this.
Here is the outcome.
I didn’t go to much into it because I didn’t find much inspiration from doing this, I found this more a light exploration into using the field recordings.