For my first audio piece for Jean Paul's Electronic Music Composition class we really experimented with what Pro Tools was capable of doing and oriented ourselves with the program and recording in general. For my experimental composition I used all concrete sounds from objects I brought into the studio and some I recorded outside of it with the ZOOM recorder. My final product is an audio piece which I titled "Battle Of The Toys." Uncertain on what my final sound would be, I experimented with the effects in pro tools such as the flanger, pitch shift, reverb and more. The product turned out to be a piece which reminded me of playing with action figures, cars and other various toys as a kid. This resemblance to the toys made me want to make a stop motion animation of toys, moving around like I would have played with them as a little kid. It was my first time working with stop motion and I enjoyed it, but I had no idea how many pictures it actually took. I ended up going for 10 frames per second, and to do this I shot over 600 pictures. The end result is an audio piece that imitates children playing with toys while the visual aspect gives the toys a life of their own.
