Joshua and I spent a few hours in 108 working on the movement and arrangement of the sound for the piece. I started the session by letting the soundscape play for around 10-15 minutes, giving us time to enter the right state of mind to get the best out of the work, each other and allowing Joshua time to warm up.
We then spent a hour or so going through the individual tracks to thin out the piece, as we thought there were too much going on to really appreciate the spatialisation. After this we focused on the movement, seeing how Joshua initially responded to the piece, I was reminded of the introductory scene for Sandman in Spiderman 3. The slow rising and falling, breaking and piecing back together felt very relevant to the themes of growth, decay and rebirth underlying my project, so we leaned into these types of movements. As a result arranging the soundscape happened naturally as we thought through how we wanted the movements to happen throughout the piece.
The next few hours were spent recording and rerecording everything and tweaking things with each take. We were working with the sunlight, as we liked how the light cast over Joshua as he moved. We wanted to keep that element as the sun went down, so I found a lamp for us to use which I think elevates the piece as a whole and helps to frames the movements.
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