Made for Disquiet Junto Project 0199: Space Crickets
I wondered just how “quiet” it would be on a long-voyage ship. Air conditioning, air scrubbers (about 75% of the functioning equipment), computers, monitors and readouts. I reckon it could be anything but quiet. Imagine then adding rain, thunder and crickets into the mix, just as you’re about to go insane…
I created the ambient hums using a piano drone, a computer fa and a sine generator, but I didn’t read all the rules and broke a big one – can anyone spot where the (copyrighted, I confess!) computer sounds came from? I would have re-laid the tracks, but by that time the sounds had become a major part of the work. Oh well, get my cell ready.
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Make a field recording of a field recording in a spaceship.
Step 1: You’re going to make an original field recording. Use only your own recordings and those from copyright-OK sources, such as freesound.org.
Step 2: There’s a brief scene in the film Interstellar (2014, directed by Christopher Nolan) aboard a spacecraft in which it’s revealed that the pilot, played by Matthew McConaughey, calms himself by listening to a field recording of crickets and rain. There’s something intimate and reflective about that little sonic trinket of Earth being of use aboard an interstellar ship. In turn, we back here on the planet are going to make a field recording — a “fake” field recording, that is — for our own use. It should answer this question: What does it sound like to listen to a field recording of crickets and rain while aboard a spaceship? (For reference, you can view the scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNI-iZ_1Rac.)
Step 3: Make the field recording described in Step 2.
More on this 199th Disquiet Junto project (“Make a field recording of a field recording in a spaceship”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/10/22/disquiet0199-spacecrickets/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
