Category Studio Project: SoundScape

This was intended to show the uninterupted sounds of bellingham. The train, water and birds create a unique and beautiful soundscape.

This is a soundscape that is meant to capture the mundane feeling of the every day life, the feeling that you get when you do the same thing almost every day.

I chose to combine nature with human fear and the unknown. In the background you hear rain accompanied by mysterious banging noises. What could she possibly be doing?

My soundscape is composed of different clips that my dad has taken of me, my family and friends during various joyful moments over the years. Layered over that is the intro to Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2, a band and song I hold very close to my heart as my family owned all the albums and would play U2 songs all the time. To tie that altogether is a recording of me reading part of the poem The Forest by Susan Stewart. For me the poem gives meaning to the soundscape because to me, the forest is a representation of memory and the poem expresses the intangibility of those memories. There is a certain bittersweetness in the knowledge that although you hold those memories, you will never be able to relive them, and one day you may even forget them altogether.

My friends were playing guitar and drums in a garage, this is the last part of their session playing music together.

For this project I choose to focus on the themes of time and memory. More specifically my memory and my past. For me I grew up engrossed in Legos, whether it was building or just messing around with the bricks… Continue Reading →