For our Sonnet compositions, we studied and researched minimalistic music and composers, we did this because a minimalistic composition would fit alongside the sonnets as the videos we were composing to were around a minute long, so we didn’t have a lot of space to build up a full composition, also the focus needed to be on the sonnet reading itself and not the music, and a minimalistic composition would create a much more ambient sound which would fit much more.
We also researched, and experimented with, Fibonacci Sequence music, which is music based on lots of different groups of music of different length that relate to the Fibonacci Sequence, for example one part will be one beat long, another will be 2 beats long, another will be 3 beats long, and then 5 beats long, and then 8, and then 13, etcetera, and they will all start at the same time and repeat, eventually they will all start at the same time again. The most important thing about Fibonacci music is that it creates a very ambient style sound due to the constant random like sound that it creates.
Another thing that we researched was drones. Drones are continuous notes, or chords, that play throughout an entire composition, they are good at setting a tone and creating an ambient sound as its a constant, never changing bed of sound.
The last thing I looked into was suspended chords. Suspended chords, unlike major or minor chords, dont have a particularly ‘happy’ or ‘sad’ sound, they are much more melancholy in a way as they have no specific tone to them. However, the bass note can completely change the tone or sound of the note and give it more of a ‘happy’ or ‘sad’ sound, but yet they still have a very unique sound that is ideal for creating ambient sound beds. They are created by taking a standard triad chord and moving the third up or down by either a semi-tone or a tone.