ASSIGNMENT 6 - Sound Concept

For this sound editing assignment, (I was abroad in Thailand, and spent most of the time at a funeral, and other, with my newborn niece) I mixed the ambient sound of a funeral's live Chinese orchestral performance led by a monk who sang. The ritual music was to guide the spirit of the dead to heaven. I combined random vocals of a newborn, using basic techniques like panning, volume automation, layering, and added some echo effects at the end. The piece aims to symbolize the simultaneous occurrence of presence and absence, the juxtaposition of life and death - a life dies and a new one emerges, and it never ends. Below's the link:


https://soundcloud.com/praewk-1/soundconcept-death-birth