This is a three minute soundscape experience created with audacity. For the intended experience, you'll find it is easier to focus with ear buds or head sets. So plug in, close your eyes, and explore.  

Artist Statement: While brain storming about this project, I found, over time, my perception of time, changed. I learned that I have a lot more time than I thought, but it is very easy to forget to appreciate the time I have now. In my soundscape I have included an audio recording of a party I went to during my senior year of high school. Looking back now I laugh at how young I was and how crazy the transition to college was. I still feel like an eighteen year old. This piece is my way of calling myself out on falling into the drama of middle school and high school. Don’t get me wrong; we all fell into the petty dramas. But looking back and seeing how much time I wasted worrying about drama that meant nothing. Worrying about pleasing others when I didn’t even have to yet. I spent my entire childhood taking myself too seriously trying to be a young adult. At age twenty I am looking back wondering what it was for. It was so random and confusing but it was a blissful muddle. And, as I can only try to recreate that cacophonous childhood symphony, that is what I have done. So far in life my concerns were primarily social interactions. Between age ten and twenty my whole personality and identity wrapped itself in a cocoon. And in the ten-year block of my life the only actual issues I had to face were my depression and anxiety. My parents did a lot better than they probably think they did. I’m just “special”. I finally realized how blind I had been by just not being constantly surrounded by the perfect world my parents and the whole of Palm Beach County orchestrated. When I say “my parents” I mean who they were twenty years ago until today, not who they are today. And when I say “ the whole of Palm Beach County” I mean hyperbolic sarcasm. Like every childhood, my childhood was unique, and the older I am getting the longer my childhood seems to be stretching over more of my life.  At present I am not sure if I should give into the urge to have my childhood or if I should just stay the “young adult” I was always raised to be.  

Beat Box Hero

Midd Process Work (TBM)

Sculpture student attending the University of Florida. 

Alexandra.Kirschner