Introduction to Sound Design

One really interesting day today... today we had sound design by Philippe Vachey...the HoD for gaming. Also today was the very first class by him. We were asked to get any kind of materials which make sound. I brought two empty bottles of coke to try and imitate drumming. We had a very powerful sound recorder and all of us began using their instruments to make sounds. Nikhil got the scissors and tried making sounds of the barber cutting hair. Aman got a book which had a plastic cover with very fine lines on it and when you run your nail over this cover, it makes really cool high pitched sounds. Well he used this to imitate mice fighting and running around. Sam tried doing some weird sounds with the harmonium. Pranav got a plastic bag and crushed it to give very interesting sounds. Philippe also showed us to use the plastic bag to show if some one is being chased and how to increase and decrease the speed to give realistic chasing effects. It also seemed very similar to walking on dry leaves. Pranav also used the guitar to make some musical effects. Julien used a toothbrush, spoon fork and his glass mug. He made rubbing sounds with his finger moving rapidly on the toothbrush, he even imitated brushing his teeth to get his desired effect. He hit the glass mug with the spoon and fork at multiple locations to form different sounds. Amol used a thermocol glass and a piece of Jenga wood block (the ones we used to carve out our dice) to make table like sounds, hitting the cup with his fingers for a variation in sound sometimes. Siddesh made a very repetitive two strikes hitting with his spoon and glass which he stole from the mess :P. Karl used a small tube like container with a lid to make poping sounds. He basically pulled out the cap to make a pop sound and quickly put the lid back. Harshal used a one rupee coin to make some interesting sounds. He threw it from a certain height to get a metallic dropping sound. Then he spun the coin very fast and recorded the sound of it slowly stopping and vibrating on the ground. And well about me... well i tried to fill the bottle up and make some whistle like sounds which Nikhil suggested but I failed miserbly. Then i tried to bang the two coke bottles against each other to make some drumming sounds, didnt really succeed in that but well... after a few more tries with it , I was done. In fact it was really funny because Aman and Sam started taking pictures of me playing (i think i looked really retarded here) and philippe was calling everyone maestro. Well good day overall, had a lot of fun... it was to make us aware of something called sound consiousness and that we dont need the real objects to imitate that particular kind of sound with a little funny reference to the Pavlov's experiment... and to keep our mind open to the world of sound, as philippw said ears have no eye lashes...