CommLab Week 02 System Sounds

System Sounds: Hospital

by Parth, Shohnigor, Damon

Context

  • Hospital in extraterrestrial biopunk society
  • Dystopian society where biotechnology is overused by biotech megacorporations and oppressive government agencies that manipulate human DNA
  • Overdeveloped genetic engineering and biotech
  • Machinery has characteristics of living organisms, gore, insects

Macro Concepts

  • Biomechanical
  • Biopunk
  • The symbiotic relationship between organisms and technology
  • Ancient tribal sound + technology (low-pitch sound)
  • Heavy industrial sound

Inspirations

Image References

Lobby
Reception
Hallway
Hospital Door
Hallway
Heart Rate Monitor
 
MRI Machine
Operation Room
 

Sound Family

1. Ambulance

  • Siren: Elephant and whale roar + ferry horn – Reverse
  • Sound of wheels traveling on deserted land

2. Hospital Hallway

  • Hallway ambiance: drone and low humming sound + heavy industrial pounding
  • Gurney: small wheels traveling on a squishy floor

3. Door Opening & Closing

  • organic stone cracks, ice cracks
  • High-tech mechanical door

4. HeartRate Monitor

  • Turn on the machine with a valve: stone crack + bone crack + tentacle
    Machine turn on: steam + low pitch beep
  • Beating: a mixture of three pitches of beeps + underwater + heartbeat + tentacle
  • Heartbeat stops: industrial warning beep + alarm

5. MRI Machine

  • Slime – sound of crushing and moving
  • Wood and Metal Rolling
  • Low pitch Machines – Sound of Screws
  • Underwater – Underwater Movement
  • High Pitch – Siren

6. Breathing Sound with Mask

  • Bones – sound of crushing and moving
  • Ambiance Sound
  • Low pitch – Underwater movement

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