Soundscape Feedback

Empty Spaces

Empty Spaces is perhaps the most minimalistic of all of the soundscapes I have created. The reaction was good, with many finding the sound's eerie and visualising an abandoned house when listening. However there was concern on how visuals could be constructed from the sounds. It was decided that the track would need some more depth and different sounds in order for someone else to be able to use Java/ActionScript/Flash to create visuals.

Intense

The Intense Soundscape was well received by others, with many liking the build up speed of the sound over the course of the ten seconds. The idea of having sounds coming from different angles which were very 'in your face' were also liked.

War Machine

My favourite of the three, War Machine, was also enjoyed by the group. I had successfully visualised a 'machine' and added gunshot sound effects which they understood to be the 'war' part. The main point for feedback for this is the fact that moving visuals could be constructed easily with this soundscape.

After a successful crit, it was then considered that the soundscapes were too obvious and needed to be more playful. For example, did 'War Machine' have to be a mechanical machine. Could an idea of humans being the machine at war - as it used to be back in the past wars. The sounds could be from a different perspective - perhaps from the terror of the people at the other end of the war machine. It was the likes of these thought processes, that are considered 'outside the box', that needed to be created.

Finally, it was suggested that we looked at E4 Estings, which are a selection of 10 second moving visuals with sounds, that are played between adverts on the E4 channel. It should give me a greater idea of the things we can achieve when producing visuals for the soundscapes.