Ideas

Soundscape:

• Portrait of Brighton - This could include sounds of the beach, such as walking on the pebbles and the waves. Also it could include the pier with sounds of the machines in the arcade and the rides outside.
• Portrait of home - I could record various sounds that are within my home such as hoovering and washing machines. I could make this more personal by adding the sound trains in the background which run by my house.
• Portrait of London - For this portrait I would include the sound of busy, crowded streets and lots of traffic.

Interview:

• I could interview a Sussex student about how they've found their first year and the experiences of moving away from home.
• Alternatively I could interview a final year student about their experience as whole and how they feel about going in to the working world.
• Another idea is asking a yoga instructor about health and wellbeing and how to keep relaxed.

Week 5

Today I interviewed some people in Brighton. A lot of people were very shy and  subsequently did not want to be interviewed.

Week 4

In class we listened to a BBC radio soundscape of Portsmouth train station. I found it very relaxing as it paints a picture of the landscape. I thought it was interesting that it features interviews of what people thought of the station and not just direct sounds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c45hq

I also conducted interviews with students on campus and asked them questions about student life.

Hugo Zuccarelli

• Sound engineer from Argentina
• Created ‘Holophonics’ – Sound equivalent of visual Holography (3D).
• žIt was invented in 1980 while he was studying electrical engineering

Holophonics

The inner ear analyses sound in a holographic manner. With holophonics it uses technology to record sound exactly as it is. It uses the same multi exposure principle that is used to create holograms. Spatial dimension, ambience, emotion are all taken into consideration throughout the recording.

Notable Work

• Recognition by NASA, the music and film industry, the scientific community
• Disneyland and Disney World; on HBO, TV science programs and local news channels, on radio, in video games, and in motion pictures
• Has worked with Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson
• The Interplanetary Society
• “Aladdin,” Walt Disney. Holophonics™ used on trailer. (1992)

How it can be heard

Can be heard perfectly through nearly any stereo, set of headphones, or computer, whether inexpensive or of highest fidelity. For the first time, more complicated and expensive systems are not required for better sound (because in this case the sound is recreated in the listener’s brain). His discovery led him to invent a single-source, high-definition, low-distortion speaker

Criticisms

There is no evidence, nor studies conducted, to indicate that the holophonic technique is substantially different from or superior to other methods. His technique has not been published. Holophonic recording is similar to binaural recording – his study was done by using the same technique as patent binaural recording.

Week 3

In class today we experimented with creating sounds using various apparatus for example the hydrophone.



I edited some of the sounds in order to connote something. else in a similar way to Ben Burtt. For example the sound 'sawing' was created by scratching against a plastic surface.

Ben Burtt

Ben Burtt is a sound designer from America who has worked on many films such as on Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Wall-E.
He has won four Oscars including the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982.



I'm inspired by the way Burtt uses real life sounds and manipulates them to sound fictional, for example he created the light saber sound by using old film projector humming.

Acoustic Territories

• Auditory ontology - sounds disintegrate and reconfigure space
• Sound is generally in more than one place
• Ubiquity effect - difficulty to locate a sound source

Brighton Soundwalk 1

Today I went in to Brighton to record a sound walk of the seafront.




At the beginning there is clear sound of walking on the pebbles, however after that the sound of the waves is very quiet. Also there is feedback that can be heard which makes the recording sound unclear. I think this recording would have been better if I captured the sound much closer to the sea and if I took more care to avoid the sound of the wind.