Research Sound - Professional Examples

For the professional examples I decided to comment on Artificial Treatment and Territories de Sans Blanc because I found them both to be very similar in essence but different compositionally.

I found Artificial Treatment to be interesting because of the strange way these very artifical mechanical sounds seemed to work together. The timber was generally the same throughout the piece so that may be the reason that all the sounds seemed to blend together well, but the use of the different pitches and tones also worked in a an interesting way. The piece was almost irritating yet soothing at the same time and it's kind of hard for me to explain why exactly. There were also some occasionaly uses of rhythm throughout the piece created by a few repetitive mechanical sounds.

Territories de Sans Blanc worked in much of the same way that Artificial Treatment did, it used the same artifical/mechanical sounds with a sense of imber that was generally the same. The tones in Territories de Sans Blanc also seemed to have that irritating yet soothing quality. My only criticism about this piece is that it seemed to lack the variety that was present in Artificial Treatment and I think that's where Artificial Treatment seemed to break away from Territories de Sans Blanc.

I liked both pieces, I think that they both seemed to have an aesthetic quality about them that was somewhat pleasing, I just think Artificial Treatment was a little better compositionally.