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Adam

I was the originator of the noise and I had wanted to use something I had at my disposal, I went into my documents folder and filtered for music files. This computer being a day old I had some music files from my old PC and my recently downloaded podcasts, I had a few from the BBC including the Thinking Allowed podcast from Radio 4 which I always listen to. I cut this down to a stately 4:45 seconds and sent it on.

The starting track:

Vicki/Jemeter

I was the first to add stuff to the collage. Adam sent me the audio clip, and after listening to the clip, I decided that there wasn't really any songs that
I could sing that would go with the theme, so I picked a random song that came into my head - Scarborough Fair! Hastily looking up the lyrics (I only know
the first verse), I decided to sing the first two verses, seperating them at random points along the track. With that, I send it to Lincoln!

The track up to here:


Lincoln

When I got the file and at first I thought there was a mistake, I thought I was sent the wrong file. When I played it, it was just an historical analysis of boxing. But then I heard Scarborough Fair being sung intermittently and realized that I got the right file. I didn't really understand why it was about sports and all radio, I was expecting something more lyrical or melodic or something but I got what I got. And seeing as it was a sports theme going on, I went up and put on the Angels game that was going on. They were playing the Blue Jays, and I was pretty jazzed to have recorded Sean Rodriquez's first major league home run (they went on to win the game in the bottom of the ninth with two outs). So, I equalized the volume and married the tracks and sent it off to Tom.

This is my track all alone:



And my finished Phase 3.

Tom/FrozenHaddock

The audio was... creepy when it got to me. I
heard something from Radio 4 which I will assume from Adam, and some
sports commentary? Regardless, it was awesome. It has an eerie win to
it. The three people preceding me seeming to have recorded around them
I headed off to the seafront to record the sounds of Yarmouth. I took a
chunk of arcade noise, copied and reversed it, and looped it till near
the end where some nice recorded sea took over. Lovely. Anyway, here's
my isolated track:



And the track up to this point:




Haberley/Haberley

It's a very difficult thing to add more layers to something so very busy, but try I did - after all, what could possibly be added to the soothing sounds of somebody talking about boxing, the sounds of an arcade and a ghost singing Scarborough Fair to itself in the background? The choice was difficult, but in the end I decided on a synthesised version of a conversation I accidentally recorded whilst working in the kitchen, mixed with other sounds from around the house. I'd say it worked, but by this time you an barely distinguish the parts anyway so I figuredthat anything sticking out too badly would've been a bad thing...

My added track:


And the track so far:

Flea

By the time I'd gotten the file, it was getting pretty busy. It needed structure! And where better to be get structure than Classical music! This is one of my favourite Classical tracks, distorted a tad...

And, the track so far...

Lankin/Flashy

When I heard the montage for the first time, I wasn't sure what to think. Well, actually, I was, but that thought was something along the lines of 'Aargh the zombie children are going to eat my brains'. Listening to it again, I decided that that wasn't necessarily such a bad thing, and resolved to add to the hauntingness [sic] in any way possible. The first thing that sprang to mind, although not that haunting, was to take the first second of 272 random songs and use this as a backing track. Investigation found that this would take roughly three hours to do by hand, so sod that. Instead, I took some passages of Paradise Lost (always good for quoting), and intercut them with audio from one of the YouTube greats. With the screams suitably downplayed, to not overpower everything else, and the quotes at various levels in the sound, we came up with this masterpiece. (Note - masterpiece in question is really boring to listen to on its own, being a backing track).


Added to the previous parts, the finished collage sounded like this. Enjoy, possibly while sipping on the refreshingly chilled souls of the damned.

Or any other drink.