Post #5: An Update

I’m glad this week to begin working on a larger project which will be performed in the planetarium as part of a electronic music show presented by my class. This week, I have continued gathering sounds, especially water sounds, in which I have noticed my sound bank is lacking. I have also begun to sketch (literally) a score for my midterm project. This score is a pictoral representation/diagram that will help me navigate the larger structure of my piece as I compose it. For mine, I chose to draw something like a maze, or a labyrinth, with arrows indicating the path in which the listener moves. This will give me a real tangible, kinetic sense of where the sounds should move and from which directions they should come in the course of the piece. In my prior experiments, I have found this aspect about how to deliberately position sounds in the environment to be particularly important to creating an authentic soundscape. I will continue to give updates on this project as it develops, and on Thursday I will post another listening response.