Groups of
3-4 students will collaborate to create an ambient soundscape. The works will be installed in Room 243,
using 2, 3 or more computers for the performance.
Heres a
description of one recent ambient sound performance in
Using radio as their starting point, Debashis Sinha and
Ben Grossman explored a range of moods drifting across the airwaves. Amidst the
buzz and hum between channels, Sinha and Grossman created sound points of
startling beauty. From snippets of talk radio to ragtime jazz, these sound
points presented sonic snapshots of radio culture through the decades. Layers
of percussion heightened the effect of their ambient atmospherics.
Your job is
to create a sound installation using multiple sources: recordings you make yourself (at the computer
and with a recorder), and snippets of sound from the internet, CDs, Ipods etc anything!
The idea is
to create the aural ambience of a certain place/time/mood. Your audience will walk around our room
surrounded by your soundscape from at least 2 or
three computers. You will also show related
visual images on the screens and/or the projector.
For
instance, it might be a maritime scene, with gulls, foghorns, ghostly voices of
lost fishermen, sails flapping, waves lapping and so on. Or you might re-create a busy street corner,
a restaurant, a farmyard, or a deep jungle.
Or you might go for a more urban or high-tech ambience, such as a factory,
a club, or a futuristic or gathering of robots!
One thing you cannot do is just play DJ, spinning your favourite tunes
you have to create a whole environment
Whatever
you choose, you have to put a lot of your selves into it, through original
recordings, finding and editing lots of sound sources, figuring out how to make
use of two or more computers during the performance, and linking in some
visuals.
More to come on evaluation, deadlines etc.
For now, you have roughly a week to complete this, and marks will be for
originality, effort, use of available technology and
sources, and of course the quality of the final result.
A couple of
starting points, food for thought:
http://www.theambientping.com/
http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.html