Sonic Design — Project 1
24.05.2024 — 07.06.2024
Rachel Madeline / 0356994
Bachelor of Design
(Hons) in Creative Media
Project 1 — Auditory Imaging
❥INSTRUCTIONS
❥TASK
For this task, students are instructed to create an audio image using
any of the combination below. The audio should create an image for the
first-person point of view to be able to visualize on what is going on
based on just the audio tracks. It should be able to tell a story for
the chosen scenario. Students are not allowed to use any voice or
dialogs.
The choice of scenarios are:
1. Wildlife + Background
2. Everyday Home Life + Background
3. Cities + Transport + Exterior Atmosphere
4. Industry and Electronic sounds + Background
5. Weather + Background
5. Weather + Background
6. Market + Rural atmosphere + Background
I decided to go with a mixture of cities as well as weather and
background and wanted to tell the story from a cat's POV.
Fig 1.1 Script for Auditory Imaging
For the ambience, I added light rain ambience, city ambience and street ambience to achieve sense of a night city environment.
After adding ambience, I added a faded sound of wet footsteps and sped it up which raised the pitch since a cat's footsteps are lighter than a human's.
Fig 1.2 Stretch and Pitch for wet footsteps
Then I added meow sounds as well since the cat is hungry looking for food, then when it walked towards the box of pizzas and scrounged around them, I added an audio for fumbling with boxes and added a keyframe for the volume of the streets ambience and slightly decreased it so the audio of the boxes and the cat eating can be the main focus. When a cat is satisfied and happy, they also start purring so I also added an audio for the purring.
For the 9th track, I wanted to make the audio seem faded as it is neighbors shouting in the distance in the apartment so I adjusted the paramatic equalizer for it to sound slightly muffled or muted.
Fig 1.3 EQ for 9th track
For the crash part, I added a sound of a glass breaking then a huge crashing sound then added a cat screaming due to shock of the crash. Then I added an audio of the surrounding crowd screaming in panic.
After the incident as the cat walks away, I added a keyframe and adjusted the volume for the screaming crowd and street ambience to start decreasing and made the police siren audio soft then loud then soft again to give it a sense as if it just rush drove past the cat. I also decreased the volume of the city ambience as the cat went further away from the scene of the crash then finally found a spot to sleep in and added the sound of rustling. Once the cat settled down, I added another purring audio to give a sense of the cat's satisfaction and resting.
❥FEEDBACK
❥REFLECTION
This project was pretty new to me as it is sonic design and it is the first time where we were given the chance to implement our knowledge and skills on audition to execute a story. I found it a bit of a hassle to find audios that suited the cat's POV since it was pretty hard to find specific sounds like lighter footsteps on puddles as well as cat munching on a pizza slice so I had to tweak and improvise with whatever audios I found that were similar enough to those.
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