Monday, 13 October 2014

Radiophonics and Contact Sounds

In session 3 we were introduced to 'Radiophonics' and 'Contact sounds' and watched a BBC documentary on how they have been used.
Radiophonics used sound effects to produce and create new music for radio and most famously have been used in the Doctor Who theme song. It was the first electronic tunes for television and is one of the most recognised theme songs today.
Below I have attached the YouTube link for the original tune.



After watching the Documentary, we were given contact microphones which we used to create our own mixdown. We attached the microphone to different objects and then hit the object to see what sound the microphone produced.
I attached the microphone to such things as a bicycle wheel and basket, a fence, a fire extinguisher and more and then layered each sound on top of one another as well as adding effects to create the mixdown below:

Contact Sounds Mixdown

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