Oops. Whoopsie. Oh no! Sh#t!
There are multitude of mistakes: User error, slipups, happy, egregious, colossal, harmless, fortuitous, technical, creative, social, financial… Much like in the photo of broken glass above, there can be beauty in mistakes as much as there is regret.
Please share with us how you handle mistakes. Rolling with them, embracing them, fixing them…. positive or negative; understanding them is an art within itself.
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I learned that gold hides in mistakes.
I was recording a singing wine glass for a video game SFX pack.
The idea was to edit and process “perfect” takes, to turn them into a loop for a “this player’s energy shield is active” sound.
I got what I wanted. But there were also odd and alien squeaks, boops and rasps from my finger’s less-than-perfect revolutions round the glass lip.
It’s stuff I normally discard. But a thought new to me came: what if these could be used to voice the foiling of an incoming projectile?”
I auditioned the anomalies on a separate track I named “Awkward potential.” Each was unique and would’ve given the shield a dynamic and responsive character.
It didn’t work, but I’ve a new approach! :D