Soundmarks/Soundscapes

Create a two to four minute sound composition that seeks to capture the unique sonic environment of a particular place.  Include one or two personal “soundmarks” to anchor in your composition and help to tie together the soundscape as you build it.    You must include both a stereo sound “field” and mono sound elements in your three-track (minimum) composition.  Things to think about and authors to return to include:

• Will you choose the “hi-fi” sounds of the natural world or the “lo-fi” sounds of the city?  What does such a choice imply? (Wrightson and Tonkiss)?
• How will you design the soundscape to give your listener a sense of location and distance (Wrightson)?
• What is the role of silence in the place?  In your composition? (Tonkiss)
• How are the sounds you choose bound up with the identity of a place?  Of the people who inhabit that place?  (Moore)
• How might the sounds you choose define an “us” who belongs in that place and/or imply a “them” who does not? (Moore)
• What “work” are you asking your listener to do, and what does it mean for them to do it? (Moore)

Josh Larson's Soundscape: Elevators

Select Independent Study Work:
Josh Larson's Remix project: Angela
Bryan Pantages's Tour project: video podcast