Aspart of developing ideas for my final project, I researched Pierre Schaeffer and his work with sound. Schaeffer was a French composer who is known for creating musique concrete, a form of music that uses recorded real-world sounds instead of traditional instruments.

What I found interesting about Schaeffers work was the way he transformed everyday noises into musical compositions. Rather than writing music for instruments, he recorded sounds such as trains, machinery and other environmental noises them manipulated and arranged them using technology available at the time. This challenged traditional ideas about what music could be and encouraged people to listen to everyday sounds in a different way.

One example from my project could be taking the sound of a pencil moving across paper and editing it into a repeating rhythm. Instead of simply being a recording of drawing, the sound would become part of the music itself. This is similar to how Schaeffer used recorded sounds as the foundation for his compositions.

Researching Pierre Schaeffer has helped me think differently about sound and where musical ideas can come from. It has also given me inspiration for how I can use recordings from the artwork process to create a soundtrack that feels connected to the visual rather than added afterwards. Moving forward, I would like to experiment with recording and manipulating these sounds to see how they can influence the overall mood and rhythm of my final project.