Category Archives: sound design

This paper analyzes connections between the urban soundscape and electroacoustic music composition, looking at my work, as well as with a view on contemporary music in general. Exploring the concept of noise in our culture, I approach the mechanisms that allow the sounds of everyday experience to participate in the development of a poetics rich in emotional dynamic, connected with fundamental elements of our music tradition and directly dependent on the way we experience sound. Urban soundscapes have become the natural sound environment for city dwellers. Over a century of exposition to particular sound families tends to redefine the processes and archetypes that guide our interpretation of sound as art. Having chosen recorded sound as the main material for my works, I sometimes use unprocessed sound and drive the composition forward by cutting, juxtaposing and mixing, playing with connotations and the locally emerging myth. Alternatively, I might use the recorded sound as a malleable material I can warp to the extreme. ‘Real-world’ sound has always had a certain power on the mind of the listener and so have the processes of its transformation, laying out some kind of idiosyncratic dream-scape for listeners to follow and explore in their own mind. Continue reading →