As the virtual reality group create the first scene for the virtual reality experience, us the sound group have to focus on gathering and recording sounds that will fit the room. I have worked on creating general ambient sounds for the bedroom, such as rain that can be heard from outside.
Month: March 2023
Further Reading – Sonic Warfare Steve Goodman
Sonic Warfare is a book wrote by Steve Goodman (Kode9) about how sound can be used as a weapon
Non-Linear Narrative and Introduction to FMod
Spirit of place – The only time I have truly felt spirit of space within a man made structure has been at Segrada Famillia in Barcelona, Spain. The building was made by Antoni Gaudi in 1882. When stepping inside it is as if you are at one with god and is very spiritual, no other building has ever made me feel like this.
Our VR experience is going to be linear and the player is going to have to go through the rooms to progress within the experience, therefore we are going to follow a linear sound structure and sounds will play as the player interacts or passes items within the experience.
Ambisonics order – how many microphones we’re using. 0,1,2,3. Mono Audio is ambisonics on level 0
A-Format vs B-Format
XYZW – Up, Down, Left, Right, Width
What is Ambisonic(s)?
• Surround recording and playback technique, Michael
Gerzon 1970s
• Little commercial success so far, patents expired
• Independent of playback loudspeaker configuration,
scaleable
• 2D and 3D sound-fields can be synthesized
Dissertation Proposal
Route A – Dissertation (6,000-8,000 words)
Route B – Audio Paper (30-40 minutes) – A piece of audio that follows the form of an essay
Audio Paper Manifesto –
- The audio paper affords performative aesthetics.
- The audio paper is idiosyncratic.
- The audio paper is situated and partial.
- The audio paper renders affects and sensations.
- The audio paper is multifocal; it assembles diverse and often heterogeneous voices.
- The audio paper has multiple protagonists, narrators and material agencies.
- The audio paper brings aesthetics and technologies together in mediation.
- The audio paper is a constituent part of larger ecologies.
Ideas for dissertation –
Give three advantages to writing a dissertation –
- You are using the language of intellectuals
Give three advantages of making an audio paper –
- It is easily accessible
- You can use sound to
Describe three ways in which the two research routes are similar and three ways in which the two research routes are different.
What is your question?
How does noise and sound effect the aesthetic of underground Japanese cinema of the 90s.
What would your question sound like as an audio paper?
Film sounds, interviews, documentary, field recordings, foley