Once we all decided on the theme (colour) – we each picked a specific sub-theme to work on – i chose the colour black as i felt it would be a good way to explore something new in terms of using instruments I hadn’t used before as well as exploring a more orchestral theme and idea for the piece – which I had never really previously done.
I started off my piece with the initial background atmosphere I think the track connected with me because of the chance to create the atmosphere of what and how I was feeling in the moment as well. There is a sense of eerie and grounded realism, which I feel portrays the current climate of the world right now – or at least my view of it. The colour black was a really good inspiration and source to unleash all the emotion and helped lead the direction of the tonalities I wanted to use as well.
I began by using the ‘cinema 1.4’ instrument in UVI workstation which creates an eerie ghostly atmosphere and played in very simple progressions, just to create a very basic pulse like rythm in the background. On top of that I layered and used the ‘Dark Knight” software instrument which created a really deep low note to create a very airy dark atmosphere.
underneath both of those I layered a really low kick and snare to create a slow paced rhythm for the introduction. For the beginning this was all I did to just lay the foundation for the overall piece and give me something to work towards.