A Walk in the Park

Program Note: My first investigation of a synthesized soundscape, this piece aims to create an immersive environment with narrative form with fixed media. Its creation was guided by Dr. Michael Miller who provided me with language about a listener’s relationship to sounds as the sounds move both between reality and abstraction, and spatially within the stereo field. I used a combination of field recordings and synthesized elements to create sonic material which I then manipulated spatially with volume automation, reverb, and HRTF panning via Blender’s sound source objects and sound listener object. Formally, the piece aims to put the listener in perspective of a person who moves from an urban environment, represented with realistic sounds and spatialization, to a green space which is rendered with a more nebulous and melodic soundscape. 

More Information: The piece follows a narrative I had constructed about someone who lives in an apartment taking a moped ride to go walk in a park. When creating the piece, I was interested in trying to merge the sound design techniques I'd learned from dance music production with what I understood to be more of an academic pursuit. As such, I tried to make the piece move from straight-ahead representative sound design to more tonal, abstract sound design.