In the 20th Century, the term EP stands for Extended Play Record. It was a type of vinyl record that was played at a different speed than the standard records but in the 21st Century it means Extended Play (SP) witch is a short version of an album and these are usually use as i starting point for a content creator that my not have the money or resources to makes a full album (LP). They are also used by large producers as a free promotion material to bring new people into their music driving in the sails up of their full albums. (Jon Skinner, 2018)

I wanted to do the research about EP’s to get the correct understanding of what is required for an EP and I will be doing a two track EP with an instrument pack and an instrument Demo.

Musique concrète The term musique concrète is French for “concrete music” which is a technique of composing using record raw materials. Musique concrète is the act of assembling various natural sounds that were recorded. The technique was developed by the French composer Pierre Schaefferin in 1948 in his experimental studio. When Pierre Schaeffer first started using this technique he would record and arrange all the audio on tape witch would take many days making it a very time consuming process but with modern technology we can record our sounds to a digital format and then cut, edit and add effects the sounds in a DAW (digital audio workstation) (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2018)

For my FMP I will be using the principles of sampling RAW objects around the house and using the samples in my instruments.

When talking about different types of microphones, I have to take into account what I am going to be using them for, so I'll be after a mic that is quick and portable that offers a high quality recording so that I can record a 2 track stereo of anything. I found that probably the best way of grabbing recordings quickly while being portable would be a Handheld field recorder as they run on batteries and capture using its X/Y set of microphones two track stereo. The XY recording method allows the records like the Zoom H1 to be able to capture in a large area with its wide angles of pickup due to its stereo cardioid polapatten with its overlapping phasing pairs that can be seen in the photo on your left. But with the recorder recording to an SD card I would have think about the bit depth and sample rate of the device for this I would went with 48khz 24bit as the 48khz allows for a high quality that can be found mostly in film and tv but can be uploaded easily to streaming sites and 24 bits as it allows for lots of head room while editing as the recorder will be taking date points a lot more often allowing for time stretching and noise reduction making the edit a lot quicker. (Digitalsoundandmusic.com, 2022) (E-Home Recording Studio, 2012) (Zoom, 2013)