I just wanted to create some kind of ambient sound, and I thought of the Lo-fi
playlists on Spotify that I like to listen to. Often times the tracks on these
playlists incorporate something outside of instrumentation, like rain noise or
other sound effects. I love it when the sound of rain is in music and so I used
that as a starting point.
The sounds I used were a combination of audio files I found in different
project folders on my hard drive — I have a large sound effects library but
unfortunately did not have the external drive where I store them with me
when I was writing this sketch. I also found a couple things from a free
sound/instrument library online.
I had a total of five sounds that I used for this composition — the rain, two
pads, a bass sound which I actually used a sound effect of a pillow hit, and a random bell trill.
I didn’t do much in ways of visuals, and just opted to include a gif of rain.
I manipulated different elements of the sounds like adding reverb or delay,
changing the start time, the rate to change pitch of the pads, as well as
amplitude of some sounds.
I had some issues with the loop playing but then stopping so that only the
rain sound is left, and the rest of the sounds would come in again several
seconds later. And sometimes the page would also crash.
After presenting in class, Luisa pointed out that I should put the reverb
processing in the setup rather than in the draw loop — makes sense!
