This is a piece I made during my first semester in my MPhil in Music and Media Technology. It is also an Acousmatic piece, this time every sound being sourced entirely from the sound of a metal bottle. During one recording session, I spent an hour extracting every sound I could from a metal flask, by either hitting it, scraping it, swinging it, blowing into it, tapping it, rubbing it, etc. I used a couple of different tools to achieve these sounds, including pens, keys and metal rods. I then spent a week molding and morphing the recordings into the most alien sounds I could, using a variety of different audio effects, programs, synths, etc. With the piece, I wanted to explore resonances and textures created from metal, as an homage to Sci-Fi movies, as so many of these films use everyday objects, such as metal flasks, to create futuristic or alien-like sounds. I wanted to push myself to try and create the same results using the limited resources I had, and construct them into a free-flowing, yet cohesive piece.

This is a project I worked on for my undergraduate degree in Communication Studies, specifically for my Audio Production module. Along with my teammate, Caoimhe O'Maonaigh, we were tasked with redoing the audio entirely from scratch for a scene from The Ring (2002). We worked together on recording the more natural sound effects (footsteps, ADR, water, etc.), while I worked alone on the digitally created sounds (SFX work, music, ambience, etc.).

This was recorded for an assignment in my MPhil in Music and Media Production. I recorded an original song by Shane Crosson, with Shane on vocals, and Ciaran Traynor on guitar and backing vocals, with two different microphone setups, outside of the MMT Stack B studio. We chose to record in the hallway, as the echoed acoustics made for a unique recording setup. I recorded with four microphones simultaneously into a Zoom H6 portable recorder, two for each setup. I then went through the audio to see the benefits and drawbacks of each setup, and then mixed and mastered them both into two separate tracks. This is the AB Spaced Pair setup, which I feel has a fuller sound. It was recorded with two Rode NT2000s. I then did some EQ work, and mixed/mastered it myself.