Farmington Sound Composition

For this composition, I recorded environments around Farmington: The Dunkin Donuts eating area (which there was music and a conversation taking place), the happening around the Mantor Green (doors closing, kids playing, and people walking by), and traffic passing by. I chose sounds that would allow me to misrepresent the environments I was in. Then in order to avoid the anticipation of creating an already thought out composition, I arbitrarily ordered the clips across multiple tracks. I added effects to the track but only perceived the effect on one sample clip which happened to be placed at the beginning of the piece. Then, once I had arranged all the sounds, I decided I was done by a visual perception of the placement of the tracks. I attempted to avoid producing a sonic composition and instead become a sonic listener instead. What I have found is that in order for the composition to exist, there must be some sort of production. However, the production was sonically random, and by duplicating tracks and spreading them throughout the composition, I was able to take my sonic self and remove it from the expectative position of producing and place myself into the unknown space of the listener because I had no idea what to expect each time I listen to the piece.