I recorded some sounds produced by (1) hitting the canisters to create an echo and (2) rolling the canisters to evoke a sense of weight and heaviness. I then edited the sounds by overlaying them, adding artificial additional echos, changing the pitch and making them reverb. These sounds, if I were to use them, would be played on repeat in the gallery space to produce a sense of all consuming disarray, confusion, and to hypnotise the viewer. Perhaps they could be played from a speaker placed inside one of the canisters- perhaps to produce more immediate and natural echos, to make the piece more menacing and enlivened. The repetition would infer an endlessness which aims to reflect how the current pandemic seems to be, itself, unending. Restrictions seem to be dragging on and hope is diminishing… Perhaps the sound could get louder towards the end of the display time- to emphasise a sense of panic and anxiety and produce similar feelings within the viewer themselves?

Creating and mixing sounds / Hannah Grist / MA FINE ART 4 STUDIO AND RESEARCH (2020-2021)[YR] by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0