Soundscape project

    In this project, I collect a lot of sounds made by these tiny things in our daily life, such as switches, keys, bells and so on. What I want to do first about this project is a music game. While after making some attempts, I find the interaction part too complicated for me to finish and the audio part is also very difficult because I need to separate each sound with each other. So I give up this idea and turn to another dream I once had.

    In that dream, I travel around the Earth with these tiny things with me. And they make the sounds that exactly represents that location’s atmosphere when we reach a new place. So I use the AU to mix the sounds collected by me. But the core of the dream is that these tiny things traveling with me, which indicates that their original sound is the same. To both embody different atmospheres and the same root, I add lots of special sound effects to make them very distinctive with each other. At last, I use PS to design a fantasy map based on the Earth’s map so that viewers can scroll around the map to explore my dream.

   The most difficult part of this project, I think is the mixing phase of the sounds. Because I want to make them represent different locations. So the rhythm and the beat must be very different from each other. It takes me a lot of time to find the ideal sound effect.

   In conclusion, though I have met lots of difficulties, I am still very satisfied with this project.

Here’s the link

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~jz4060/week9/finalaudio/audio.html

Johnny