In an effort to illustrate the sounds I associate to certain still images and environments I am composing a score and soundscape to reflect the environment of Claude Monet’s piece ‘Fisherman’s Cottage on the Cliffs of Varengeville’.

This is a photograph of the painting I am basing my composition on.

This past week in order to incorporate what we learned about MIDI, in Creative Sound Projects, I arranged a piece using an instrument library I have in a software called LUNA. Strings were the main instrument used in this introductory cue. I used an Arturia keystep MIDI controller to improvise the various string parts, controlling velocity and modulation qualities live when recording. It is supposed to introduce the environment of the scene, following the initial presentation of the soundscape I am going to create.

Following the initial arrangement and tracking, I exported the instrument tracks as WAV files and imported into ProTools, the main DAW I use in my practice.

I am titling this series ‘A Score for a Painting’, No. 1 being this project. My practice is currently centred around composition for image, focusing on sound design and scoring for film, however, I am attempting to incorporate this mindset into other mediums as well.