For this most recent collaborating project, which included supplying sounds for a ‘Zen Room’ virtual reality experience, I was tasked with collecting and delivering a range of environmental, naturalistic sounds, as well as my own, carefully crafted ambience. Said ambience had to position itself perfectly amongst the overgrowth of naturalistic recordings, providing a crucial, underlying role within the work.
Once briefed, I decided to equip myself with a Zoom H5 field recorder and set about finding the most suitable environments for my sound collection. A trip to my local parks’ open spaces proved most useful, providing me with plenty of bioacoustics perfect for the virtual habitat of the Zen Room.
Whilst on a sound-walk a few days later in my local area, I happened to stumble across a quaint little stream complete with pebbles and overlooking trees. I saw this as not only a bit of luck, but a perfect opportunity to enhance my sonic contribution to Lauren & Rita’s world.
A spontaneous weekend break to Dungeness proved most useful too, the power plant emitting a natural, slightly unsettling rumble of noise which again, sits underlying in the overgrowth of the sonic climate.