Author: Jay Li

The final editing of this piece was quite fun, I get to fine tune where I would want each sound. Also using different effects on the sounds to achieve a more eerie feel to it. Thansk to what i have learnt in class, I know what most of the effects does and could effectively mix…

Theres nothing much to say about this week, but I decided to make a blog about it anyways. I basically just went to MCM comicon, with the side project of recording the loud noisy crowd noises there, as there are a lot of cosplayers there, and each of their clothing might make a slightly different…

Kinda the first time I am composing in such defined paragraphs, I usually link motifs up a bit, but for the sake of this piece where I am cutting up, it is pretty nice to switch things up a bit. I wanted maybe the end of the piece to resemble the end of the night,…

This week I decided to start composing the piece first. I have composed Japanese style music in the past, so I am quite familiar with the basics of it. Theres a few different modes that Japanese music uses, they are all slight variations of a pentatonic scale. I used to mainly use the Insen mode,…

After doing a bit more research to it, I decided to focus on one ghost. I think one of the most famous Japanese mythological beings is the nine-tailed fox. And the most famous nine-tailed fox is called Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前), famous for turning into a human form and seducing the emporer of the Muromachi era. I…

All blogs are saved as drafts until final export for easier editing. I have always been interested in Japanese mythology, and have been working a lot with them no matter art or music. As this is the final project of the first year in BA Sound Arts, I want to go back to the old…