Name: Sound Effects / Affects by finalrune
Duration: 8 min 4 s
Description: Audio drama pioneer Fred Greenhalgh riffs on how to use Sound EFFECTS and AFFECTS in a 2014 audio piece for The Drabblecast fiction podcast

Audio drama pioneer Fred Greenhalgh riffs on how to use Sound EFFECTS and AFFECTS in a 2014 audio piece for The Drabblecast fiction podcast

Sound Effects / Affects

“Dream-Land” (1844) is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most consistently misread and misunderstood poems. It tells the story of a journey, moving through landscapes of oceans, valleys, caves, and forests, beyond the borders of space and time. Although it’s never quite clear where that trip starts or where it ends. Nothing looks or moves the way it does in everyday life. Mountains tumble, the sky is on fire, the ocean leaps up, and the snow sits on the ground forever. This radio art piece explores the fragile line between the real and the illusion.  Representing acoustically what is said in the poem, read in diverse languages by women from different places of the world such as Greenland, Brazil, México, France, Germany, Iran, Romania, etc. Adding “images” and information with soundscapes from where this voices come from. Moving through real places and imaginary sound ambiences. Shapes, shadows and bodies get interlaced in an “almost “eventful and musical way. Recreating the actions, places and situations mentioned at the poem. Mixing field recordings with electronically modified sounds and noises, bases of many sources, panned, worked in layers to create movement of the microphone through textures and intimate spaces of this oneiric context. Also travelling in time: from past to future, from abstraction to concrete in a kind of apparently random session. Giving freedom to the listener to create each own tale, suggesting tracks to their imagination using words as a reference.

During dreaming the brain moves through different states represented by vibrations. our brainwave frequencies can descend from Alpha through Theta state (4-7 Hz). This “movement “is expressed , in this piece, by this kind of vibrations , linking different stories as interlaced memories.


Dreamland

Programmed using Vienna Symphonic Library tools

Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op. 46 / Morning Mood (performed using Vienna Symphonic Library)

Captive Minds

This is a recording of the "Pool 'Fool' of Gold" located in Lassen Volcanic Park. What you hear is a boiling pool of acid sulfate water and pyrite, also known as "fools gold." This is a short clip from one of many recordings that I captured while I was there.

My gear on this recording consisted of 2 Sennheiser MKH 20 microphones (inside of a "modified" SASS housing) and a Sound Devices 744T recorder.

For more info on me and some of my recent projects please check out my website... http://Eric-Mooney.com

Lassen Volcanic Park - Pool "Fool" of Gold

An alternative history of the moon landing. What if Buzz and Neil died? Who would go on a mission to look for them and what would they find? A cold war thriller. 
Produced by Jonathan Mitchell who also wrote the music.

Sound Effects / Affects

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