MAKING A SOUNDSCAPE

The market

The Sound

■ Noise, effect, music, speech, background atmosphere

■ Physics: Pitch , quality , loudness

■ Sounds trigger images

■ Use them instead of images

■ It is a communication code based on our experience and stereotypes

Sound as a language

■ Sounds trigger images

■ Use them instead of images

■ It is a communication code based on our experience and

stereotypes

Examples

■ http://marialeonida.com/modules/ description of the

process and examples from teacher trainings in Greece and

Germany “ The train station”

■ https://soundcloud.com/karpos-1 more examples from

workshops with University students within heritage and

culture themes

Workshop- phase 1- Hand made

■ Hand made, imaginative and experimentation based sounds

■ Use any kind of materials or your body

■ Coordinate

■ Focus on texture, rhythm, duration, density, narrative, layers

■ Use technology only to record and playback

Workshop- phase 2- ready made

■ Ready made, sounds

■ Use any kind of sounds from the web

■ Draw and Coordinate

■ Focus on texture, duration, rhythm, density, narrative, layers

■ Use technology both to find and playback

Researching professional and amateur recordings

Different forms and information (wavelength, volume, details of the person who did it...)

Geolocalisation + personal comments

Examples

■ Belgrade bar- check political comment

■ https://www.freesound.org/people/EpicWizard/packs/22157/

■ Athens sounds- check narrative and also geotags

■ https://www.freesound.org/people/lietoofine/packs/22184/

■ Lightning and heavy rain , check accurate description

■ https://www.freesound.org/people/StefanosBand/sounds/394236/

Digital version

■ Mobile devices take the role of hand made or body percussion sounds

■ The team functions similarly through brainstorming, design, rehearsal, presentation

as in a small digital device orchestra

■ Brainstorming however is defined by research in sound libraries o the web.

■ Reproduction (playback) is also affected by the kind of devices