'Sense of space' ideas

Sense of space ideas


‘The Kitchen’

An ideal environment to collect a wide array of playful sounds, the kitchen hosts a countless assortment of potential ideas.
Not only is a busy social area, with music, chatting and laughing to name but a few of these interactions, it is also a place of work and sometimes, physical labour.

The clash of sounds heard in the kitchen can be chaotic, with chopping vegetables in one corner, a kettle boiling in the other, the sink running water whilst the fridge door bangs open and close, a pan sizzling away as oil and fat pops around meat, the drone of the radio lost amongst chatting voices.

The list of explanations could go on and on, becoming increasingly manic or solitary and mellow, the sounds captured in a kitchen could tell a thousand stories and express any kind of mood or ambience.

Not only is it a highly expressive idea it would also be fairly simple to record, we have all the resources at hand and it would be a wholly natural process.
We could also make fantastic use of directional sound, with different sounds occurring around various spaces of the room.



‘The Woods’

Another straight forward environment but interesting none the less, would be to go recording in the peak district.
This would allow us to capture all manner of natural sounds, ranging from the weather, to animals and all sorts of natural wonders.
The crunch of leaves beneath the feet and the rush of a stream against stone, the twitter of birds nesting in trees and the moaning baa of sheep.

We would be borrowing heavily from the work of Chris Watson with this piece, relying on the piecing of natural sounds to create an accurate yet appealing recreation of the natural world.





‘The train station’

Another area of countless emotions, the roaring of trains as they enter and leave the station, the hum of the engines as the trains lay dormant, the hiss of the doors opening and shutting whilst the Omni-present announcer’s voice bellows from the ceiling mounted speakers, organizing the where-abouts of the countless lives scuttling below.


A train station is full of stories and varying feelings, happiness of greeting a missed love one of travelling on holiday, the sadness of seeing someone leave, the stress of being late for work, I could go on and on.
This is reflected heavily in the atmosphere of the station, bristling and manic in the morning, lonely, haunted and echoing at night.

This would be an ideal location to represent a sense of space as it is an area that at certain times can feel vast and empty but at others, completely claustrophobic.
There are difficulties with recording in this location however, the first being admittance, I'm still unsure as to whether we be allowed access to this are.
The other being due to extreme nature of some of the sounds, I don’t know if we actually hold the technical know how to properly capture the assortment of different sounds perfectly by themselves.