Sound Project 1

The other day me and my partner Chris Lowe sat down to discuss the ideas we had and decide which one we were going to go with. After some discussion we decided to go with Chris’ idea of recording in a public tram, the idea was inspired by Pejk Malinovski’s sound project ‘Tunnel Vision’. Our idea differs slightly though as where Pejk recorded people talking directly to the microphone our idea was to record snippets of conversations and have them fade in and out over each other. The reasoning behind it is to create a realistic atmosphere of public transport, by emulating the idea that on public transport you are surrounded by people who in a way are in their own worlds and you only ever catch snippets of that world never the full story behind it.

During our discussion I did raise several points that may cause problems with our idea, firstly was that our idea required us to record on a public transport so we would most likely need permission to do so. Chris hadn’t thought of this but said he would email the tram company to see if it was okay and that we would double check with the personnel on the tram when we got there. I also raised the problem that people may not be willing to let us record their conversations, the only solution we could come up with to solve this is to record partly scripted conversations later but that would cost us the diversity that we would get on the tram and it wouldn’t be as natural. In the end we decided that scripting the conversations would be a last resort.

At the end of the discussion we had to decide which roles we were going to take, we decided that I would be the sound recorder and Chris would be the editor. That said we decided that we would both be present for the recording and editing to offer assistance if the other needed it.