Ok, i have found that recently there has been some interest in my two contrasting pieces with everyone, a lot of people have been asking me how i managed to make the singular sounds become all sorts of weird and wonderful manipulations.
to those people i have one thing to say 
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Ixi Quarks.
julio went on and on about it and now i see why, it will do anything you could probably find the time to imagine to your sounds,
to start with i decided to find two different sounds, after a conversation with jay, i decided that the contrast in my pieces would be between one piece being made with natural sounds and then the other to be made using man made sounds.
in this case my natural sound would be chickens, and my man made sound would be a level crossing.
my method of recording these sounds was possibly a little crude but it worked none the less and i got a fairly decent sound from it.
to record my natural sound i went to my bands, bass players house to record his chicken shed, i can safely say it was the smelliest recording session i have ever been a part of. i sat in the chicken shed with my sm58 and my laptop and recorded approximately a minute of sound into logic.
i had a similar method of capturing the level crossing, except it took a bit more planning, in order to get this sound i had to visit the crossing i would record at and ask the operator what times the trains go past, once i knew this i would go hoome, get my laptop and go back and wait for a train to go past, i then set it up so that i was recording through the laptop mic simply cos its easier.
once a train had gone past and i had recorded it i then went home and put the sounds into IXI Quarks,
i then selected the tool i wished to use and then recorded about 4 minutes of each piece being manipulated by the different functions, for example the one i used most was the worm tool. this tool basically makes a smaller line travel around the sound and as it does it plays the frequency range of the section it is on.
after doing this for both pieces i then cut it down to the 2 minutes of each i prefered and mixed them a bit.
once i had mixed them i then converted them into 5.1 and automated the panning using the touch tool in logic.
i then took them into uni and checked that the panning was what i wanted, and luckily i got it exactly as i wanted first time and then i did a bounce of each piece and that was that
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