First Meeting Discussing Audio Project Ideas

These are my notes after our first meeting with Lee to discuss our audio only project. We clarified that our theme for the piece would be to try and get across the feeling of a 'lack of sense of place' which is quite a challenging concept to decide to get across purely through audio.

The initial ideas we came up with are to try and counter sounds against one another, for example establishing a few sounds from one location then pushing another sound in that makes no sense thus throwing the listener off balance at the random part that doesn't seem to have any sense of being there.

Another idea we discussed was the idea of community and the lack of belonging to a community, we could achieve this a very similar way to the first idea but counter two communities such as the cheers and roars of football supporters with the calmness and stillness of a church congregations, both strong communities, both with distinctive sounds and they both cross over with each other in quite a few ways.

The final idea we discussed was the plan to record sounds at buildings and locations that themselves had become derelict and abandoned, therefore losing their own sense of place and exploit the available sounds that we can find in those locations. The two locations we came up with that are abandoned are Park Hill flats that are largely abandoned and unused now and an abandoned warehouse near Tesco.

I think now the idea is clearly established we can experiment with these ideas to see which one comes across best when we make rough edits.