MD4M Added W/Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1QQSwtrY2Q
The objective of this task was to now add woodwind to my Bat Theme.
Visually, I used high pitch tones such as the piccolo to highlight high drama, particularly gaining speed of the bike and the powerful bullets. I also used high toned instruments such as flute tremolo’ s with a staccato piccolo to build tension for Batman’s plan to overturn the lorry. Other instruments include the English horn, clarinet and bassoon which I used rhythmically with the strings to build tension throughout the piece.
As well as listening to Elfman’ s original Batman theme, I have listened to John Barry’s ‘Octopussy – The Chase Bomb Theme’ theme and liked the way he uses small rhythmic riffs with different instruments and I decided to use this idea for highlighting rhythmic parts in my piece.
An audio technique I learned was how to layer instruments, particularly thinking about pitch and rhythm. This taught me that I can still have lots of instruments in one piece but without worrying about it getting to clustered, by using extra instruments for highlighting sections, rather than all at the same time, throughout. I think the music sounds more effective.
This is an example of practice as research because I have learnt a lot from listening carefully to famous orchestral scores by Elfman and Barry to find out ideas and techniques I can mimic to help my piece sound more effective and professional; for example, using low range instruments like the staccato bassoon as a toned ‘bass drum’ effect, mid range instruments like the flute to enhance atmosphere and the piccolo to spike out high tension areas.
John Barry (1983) The Chase Bond Scene, USA and Canada: Rykodisc. RCD 10705. CD, 1:55.
