The second chapter of the soundscape is almost identical to the first accept it builds upon the initial scenery and begins to elaborate on the story and concept.

Going back to some of the BBC articles I looked at, I took some of the audio from the interviews and constructed my own questions out of it with modernist views on the war with Syria and the IS movement.

 

Here you can see where I’ve chopped and edited the audio from the interview, and replaced some of them to construct my own sentences out of them. A lot of the audio was un balanced and fluctuated in volume so I had to use automation to balance it out. Like so.

 

I also found in Logics banks a bunch of Syrian string samples, originally I tried to purchase a sample pack called ‘Syrian Strings’ but unfortunately I could not get it to work within Logic, so I had to use these as an alternative solution.

Instead of just leaving them as loops like the interview I chopped them up, re-aranged them, and fixed them together to try and formulate a string composure which flowed smoothly in tonality and stayed vibrant, whilst capturing the fundamentals that we so popularly associate with mid eastern music.