Louie Bourne Sound Arts Blog

  • Recording Foley

    Me, George and Lucas spent three hours in the foley studio on Wednesday morning recording for the opening clip of “We need to talk about Kevin”. In this time a process formed naturally, roles changed throughout the three hours with each of us taking turns performing to the screen. Firstly, we made a list of…

  • Blackboards

    Blackboards follows two groups of refugees following the Halabja Massacre, one group of adults, the old and the sick, and one group of child smugglers. We are introduced to these groups by two teachers who are hauling blackboards on their backs and desperate for work. I found it comical that these men would ask for…

  • Reflection on the use of a mix template

    I enjoyed using a mix template for this track, I kept my project way more organised than I have done previously however it still looked messy by the end. In my next projects I will continue to work on the organisation of my projects by sticking more closely to my templates I make for each…

  • Reflection on sound effects

    My initial intentions with sound effects were to use many small sound effects of conscious creatures. During the composition of my track I tested using many sound effects and it sounded over the top, I think only using a few is more tasteful and gives more focus to the ones used, this will make the…

  • Context

    I created this piece with the intention of a listener listening to it on streaming services alone, because of this I have mainly mixed it on headphones, mixing it on headphones means that it is more suited to a listener at home rather than listening to it in a venue with loud speakers. Contextually, I…

  • Composition and experiments

    I started my composition by creating some short melodies and drum rhythms mainly for section building up to the “drop” and after developing the first section created the energetic “drop”. Once I had some short phrases developed I added in the field recording of the 70s school playground as well as some other sound effects,…

  • Initial intentions

    Whilst creating my mix template I have decided I want to make an ambient/future garage track utilising old sound effects, I like the idea of utilising recordings made in the past as it provides a window into a different time that I personally do not understand as I have not lived then. I would like…

  • Mix template

    Starting this track by creating a mix template made sense for me as I did not find my previous mixes to be up to the standard I wanted them to be and my projects always tend to become messy and unorganised. Since my last assignment I have been researching different techniques to use when creating…

  • Lena Ortega

    The lecture began with a really exciting Pauline Oliveras sound meditation in which we all sat on the literal edge of our seat with our feets planted down, felt our pulses and all tapped out the rhythm down the microphone.  Lena made it clear that she was very respectful of nature within her practice, this…

  • Rie Nakajima

    Rie Nakajima’s carries her equipment in a suitcase rather than a hardware case, this implies to me that Rie’s art is part of the way she lives rather than an extension of it, she says that her art is a subconscious  thing and describes the physical places in her brain where her art comes from:…