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December 05, 2005
Thoughts regarding audio content
There seems to be a few patterns emerging regarding the audio content. I'm attempting to summarize conversations I've had with members of the Sound Dome team and with others outside the group.
Sounds that move - We began to get at this a bit with the horse and carriage track we were listening to the other night. Other ideas include a motorcycle, race cars, or anything else with a prominent doppler effect.
Birds (or other nature sounds with emphasis of location and/or space) - Bird conversations evoke spatial idea. Using the sound domes, we would be emphasizing the spatial relationship of the bird to one another, making visitors of the installation more aware of the space they are in. Birds and nature in general is also contradictory to what people might be expecting to hear inside a building in Manhattan.
Laughter - Often when people hear laughing, they want to know what is going on, or what they are missing. Laughter, would make visitors look twice and examine the the space they are in more carefully. Additionally, laughter often makes people laugh and puts them in a good mood. Part of this should be fun, right?
Audio deconstruction - The idea would be to deconstruct an audio performance intended to be heard at one time. Each musician part of the performance would be played at the same time simultaneously, each out of a different speaker. Visitors would become more aware of the audio components and would need to move through the space in order to hear all each of them. A dialog and narrative is formed in the visitors mind as they move through space learning about the audio composition as they traverse the halway. The irony is that they would never be able to hear all of the at once. Personally I like this idea, however it's probably the most difficult to pull off.
Xin, I know you had an in at a recording studio. Do yo know where we could get audio content that still recorded to the independent tracks, before its been mixed down? Is recording something way out of the achievable scope fro this project?
I hope this helps stimulate some thinking. I envision the audio program will most likely be a combination off all of the above. Thoughts? Ideas?
Posted by DelGaudio, Michael at December 5, 2005 06:44 PM