Sound Design for Stories

Prod. by Elina

Heaven, Hell and Limbo
Jubilee Fountain, Cnr Glebe Pt and Parramatta Rd, Sydney
https://www.soniccity.com.au

Words by Anna Funder | Sounds by Elina Godwin      

A vast brothel called Kings Court, the Legion of Mary Catholic shop … It’s heaven and hell, cheek by jowl.

Exploring an iconic strip on Broadway.

ANNA FUNDER is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and celebrated writers. Her multi-award winning novel All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Prize, spent over one and a half years on the bestseller list, and is being made into a feature film. Anna’s Stasiland tells true stories of people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction in English. Anna lives in Sydney.

ELINA GODWIN is a Sydney sound designer and music producer who has worked across theatre, radio, podcasts, music composition, performance, and live engineering. She is also the curator for music events at Knox Street Bar, Sydney; a podcast producer; and has done sound design for FBi Radio, Sydney Review of Books and ‘It’s A Long Story’ for Sydney Opera House. Elina holds a Bachelor of Sound and Music Design with Honours, as well as a Bachelor of Business, and is also classically trained in viola. Elina combines her classical music training with contemporary electronic production methods to create complex undercurrent soundscapes, experimental composition and meaningful sound design.

Heaven, Hell & Limbo (2022) - Anna Funder

One Perfect Knee
Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park North
https://www.soniccity.com.au

Words by Rowena Lennox | Sounds by Elina Godwin

Approaching the Archibald from the south-east I was struck by winter sunshine glancing off two muscly male grey-bronze backs.

Love and struggle at the Archibald fountain during the AIDS epidemic.

ROWENA LENNOX is the author of two books, Dingo Bold and Fighting Spirit of East Timor, and numerous essays, stories and poems. She lives with her family on Gweagal Country.

ELINA GODWIN is a Sydney sound designer and music producer who has worked across theatre, radio, podcasts, music composition, performance, and live engineering. She is also the curator for music events at Knox Street Bar, Sydney; a podcast producer; and has done sound design for FBi Radio, Sydney Review of Books and ‘It’s A Long Story’ for Sydney Opera House. Elina holds a Bachelor of Sound and Music Design with Honours, as well as a Bachelor of Business, and is also classically trained in viola. Elina combines her classical music training with contemporary electronic production methods to create complex undercurrent soundscapes, experimental composition and meaningful sound design.

One Perfect Knee (2022) - Rowena Lennox

Xanza returns with a new single "Come Home" after a 4 year hiatus. It is a love song written while waiting for a lover to return home. It can be interpreted either literally or as a metaphor for someone not being completely present in the relationship - "And though we're apart, I'll keep my word and still be here."
 
This was written and produced in a bedroom studio, along with 8 other tracks set to release across 2023. A music video showcasing this single will be released late April ahead of the streaming release date in May. 
 
This single has been performed by the pair multiple times over the last 6 months and their next live performance is on June 7th 2023 at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Come Home

A little Christmas song about a long year and a love that has come and gone.

Gone Before Christmas (Releasing 1/12/2023)

The piece explores the themes that litter the world of fake news, i.e. truth, lies, conspiracies, knowns and unknowns. The narrative structure (a space journey) is a metaphor for how human society navigates through these themes every day. The different galaxies that the spacecraft flies through are a metaphor for the different “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers” that many people get lost in. The use of Siri’s voice as the narrator is a metaphor for the robotic algorithms that guide us into these filter bubbles and echo chambers.

It is important to mention that the final galaxy, which the listener experiences after they are “ejected from the spacecraft” into the “unknown/s” is a reflection of how each of us is ultimately individually responsible for who and what we choose to believe. We may be guided to explore certain beliefs, however we all have the power to assess and choose. I hope that the piece brings exactly this thought to the listener’s mind – i.e. What and why have you chosen to believe what you have. The final sound of shattering glass should reinforce the idea of illusion in the listener’s mind. It may be confusing - you were on a space journey so shouldn’t it have landed? Maybe you forgot for a moment that sound also doesn’t exist in space. You are not necessarily left where you started if you investigate the truth.

War Of The Words [5.1 mix] (2017)

For The Love Of Horses (2017)

VIDA Project: Album Teaser Demoscape

Xanza's Debut Single

Press Info: www.elinagodwin.com/stars-like-us

Stars Like us

Stars Like Us

Overthrow

Featuring Vicki Brown from The Urban Beehive

Premiered on FBi Radio's 'All The Best'
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Radio Edit of a piece that formed the creative component of Elina Godwin's Honours Thesis on Sound Design

Elina Godwin

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