Sonic Design : Auditory Imaging Project (Week 4~7)

 

 Audio Creation works using Digital Sound Workstation


Date : June/2nd/2025
Name : Mabuchi Arata
Lecture : Sonic design
ID : 0351579

1, Introduction

Since Week 5, We're all having the tutorial about hwoto use the Digital Sound Workstation which enables use to edit any audio files to create a whole new sound files. Its main functions are such as combining multiple sound files, pitching the sound lower or higher, make the speed of sound faster or slower, emphasizing part of the sound, adding echo to the sound and so on. We had an assignment in this sonic design module which is about designing a background sound from any situation. I pick the idea about "The background sound of Train.".

2, Brief Techniques I've learnt.

During the lesson of Sonic Design, the moduler Mr. Razif Mohamed taught us about the basic functions of Digital Sound Workstation that can be used in our Project. I used the techniques or functions I've learnt in the classroom. I tried to all the techniques I used in the session to try to represent the background sound in thr environment I pick, however I also tried to emphasize the main sound that migt be heard in the station and I also tried to emphasize some of theem that must be the iconic sound to hear in the train station. To achive this point to be made, I have to remember what kind of sound I hear in the train station plus I tried to focus to make sound clear in whole session for the resembling. The reason for this is because since I used lot of sound I download, the sound may be messed up while I tried to combine them all, if sound gets messy and messy, people starts confusing and the quality of sound become poor and poor, therefore I need to establish each of sound while I also focused on the simplifying of sound. The Techniques I mainly used for this projests are, : 
  • Equalizer  
  • Volume  
  • Pitch  
  • Echo  
  • Fade in/out
Some of the techniques shown above are already explained in past e-portfolio, I've made multiple audio pitched work by using Adobe Audition to make the sound given with different impression and different locations. I've learnt that equalizer and Echo makes the sound recorded in Differengt location, on the other hand Pitch and Speed makes the impression of the sound like playing (speaking) by different characters as shown below.

1, Alien Voice.mp3.
2, Monster Voice.mp3.

Additionally, I added the multiple layer for audio as layer and I added Echo and change pitch and equaliser to make the sound much bigger impression, I made the explosion sound much bigger and stronger.

3, Explosion.mp3.

3, Assignment Work

After some practice of Adobe Audition. I finally moved to the final work of Assignment, which is all about "designing background sound for the scene you choose". I picked the "Train station (and inside of the train)" for the work and I start to combine all of the sound I download to make one sound. the first theme for my production was all about "How can I represent the sound I normally hear at Train Station?" The sound I hear in Train station isn't just train's driving sound made by collision between train's wheel and rain that all of trains move along. We can hear sound of city sround the train and noise of other passengers or even car' drivng sound. The first task was trying to figure out want sound can be heard from Train station and download all of them from freesound. When I finish downloading all of required audio file, I moved to the step of resembling all of them. At this point, my goal was trying to tell stories through the audio plays and to do that, I had to identify solid story going through the audio session. I came up an idea that waiting a train to come at station, then ride on to the train, after that leaving the train to arrive to the destination. When I decided to stroy, I have to move on to the audio edit session. Second point iI had to do was editing each audio sounds. I couldn't just playing every sound without any effect> I had to apply most suitable sound effect for each of audio files. I mainly focused on arriving sound of train. Since I tried to represent the energetic movement of train, I have tried to increase lower part of pitch but still trying to be clear still. With effect of equalizer, the audio may gets clear or blur, I used alot this kind of effect for train's sound to be like listening from inside of train. I also tried to use Echo and pitch in the every part of sound in the audio such as city's noise from outside of the train, however I did not apply any audio effect to every sound source I used in the audio work, this is because some of them does not need any kind of effect. In the end, my attempt to assemble all of audio files to create a one background sound which I picked as theme. The work itself was achieved the goal to represent all of environment by playing every possible sound that can be heard in the train station. I mainly focued on the quality of sound depends on the environment surrounding, especiallly, the quality of sound of train moving can be different in both inside of station and inside of train the character rides on. I am satisfied to successfully differentiate the quality of sound by using equalizer, on the other hand I think I did not use the equalizer at 100% potential, the equalizer itself is used to emphasize particular part of the sound frequency or removing any noise by decreasing volume of particular range of sound frequencies. Maybe my next goal could be the more effective usage of equalizer.

4, Final Work (Train Station).mp3.


Later when I showed my work to Mr. Razif, He suggested that I had to reduce the sound of motorbike noise behind the scene. In my scenario, the motorbike should not be existed near in the trainstation, therefore I needed to figure out the what is the sound is about and where is the sound came from. In the end, the weird sound like motorbike was came from the train arrival and departure and I suggested that the sound is originally the train's motor or something. I found that It takes too long time to find out better train arrival sound and departure with adjusting timing with other tracks, therefore I used the other sound about train door opening and closure sound I downloaded and I extended the mid part of it so I can finally remove the motorbike-like noise from my work.


4. Sound Source

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