Content Design
Selected Soundscapes
The following projects were originally mixed in a 5.1 Loudspeaker configuration but remixed in stereo for this site. Please listen with headphones!
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly:
Cinecittà
In Chapter Six of his memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby affectionately recalls the moment he first encountered a light house that sat on the shoreline beside the naval hospital where he recovered from his stroke and penned his memoir.
This light house quickly became Bauby’s escape from the despair and boredom of his time at the hospital. Onto it he projected his imaginings of “Cinecittà”, the Italian filming studio created by Mussolini in 1937 to revive Italian cinema.
In sonically retelling this chapter, I wanted to play with the idea of genre and embrace the whimsy of Bauby’s love for cinema as we see him bounce between the different films he imagines inhabiting.
This soundscape features music by:
Ennio Morricone, Kensuke Ushio, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Makoto Yoshimori and Akira Senju
Grow… Until Monologue:
Dear Wind
Performer: Louie Rude
Grow… Until was a 2023 devised adaptation of The Little Prince that I had the pleasure of sound designing. Here, the pilot describes his desire to reconnect with his inner-child, which prior to meeting the Little Prince, he didn’t know he had even lost.
After the monologue, there is a brief transition to outer space followed by a sunrise.
This soundscape features music by:
Kensuke Ushio and RADWIMPS
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly:
Duck Hunt
In Chapter Twenty-Two of his memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby details his loathing for a motion-activated duck toy owned by his neighbor in the hospital. The quacking of this duck is so maddening that he briefly describes fantasizing about finding and killing it.
I wanted to explore Bauby’s inner fantasy and see what his hypothetical duck hunt may have looked like. For this project I programmed a “duck sampler” so that the toy duck could dramatically sing Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana.
This soundscape features music by:
Hildur Guðnadóttir