schizophonic obsessions.
didactic:
Obsessions can transform into delusions. It doesn’t always, however as I live with obsessive compulsive disorder, I found myself also living with schizophrenia, which is a mental illness that corrupts the senses. Schizophonic Obsessions is an exploration into how my mind obsessively deludes my thoughts. Through recording an assorted of sounds and altering them with effects, disassociating them with the original sounds (also known as schizophonia), I intended to create sounds as I would’ve heard them. Like most of my experiences with schizophrenia, the piece comes to a climax and ends abruptly, leaving the listener tense and dissatisfied. |
fun little facts:
*Most of the sounds in the piece are altered recordings of me mucking around with a snare drum, some brush sticks, my voice, the hum of an electric organ (that was rudely interrupted by a microwave beep) and a single guitar strum. *Some of the most used effects was reveresing the track, a delay that lowers in pitch every time it repeats, and a really short but still weird phaser. *The descending sound that kind of sounds like a seal is just my hand being taken off a snare, with the delay that lowers in pitch. It seems random when it enters, but actually appears every 27 seconds or so. |
A screenshot of the Audacity session, showing most of the tracks. Note that the labels are named after what they sound like so I didn't get confused.