Working with sound

Working with sound was a great exercise. The flash movie was a cube going through a metamorphosis. I felt a background of ambient electronic music would fit nicely. When Jean asked me to have the sound emanate from the cube itself rather than have music, I knew I would be up late at night working on getting things just right. But I was assured that the ambient music would be the version I like better.
After finding machine sounds and matching each visual moment with a particular sound, I ended up with both stronger visuals and stronger sound.
Having the sounds emanating from the cube makes the whole experience a cohesive whole, rather than having music "decorate" the experience.
Approaching the piece this way the visuals and sounds began to inform each other as to the progress of the movie; meaning that sometimes... ASKing for that particular sound, and at other times... the visuals would need to be changed to fit the sound in order to bring about that "cohesive whole".