This piece incorporates the sounds I hear around me at night transitioning into the sounds I hear during the day. It starts off with the sound of me lighting my cigarette while night owls hoot amongst the trees. Leaves crackle beneath my footsteps as I walk into the sounds of daytime. Birds begin to chirp and the squirrels begin to run through the branches of trees. This piece is a sound map of my life in the dark and in the light. The stillness of the night vs. the business during the day.

Transitions: Night to Day

This track represents the horrors of war and the backlash that is followed. The piece starts off with voices of children and birds chirping overlapped with sounds of soldiers marching and a looped, repetitive voice talking about death. This is followed by sounds of explosions and distorted, unidentified sounds of laughter and radio tuning. The piece begins to become more and more chaotic with the looping explosions and distorted voices. The laughter at the end of the piece represents the madness within us as a result to the never ending terror produced by human beings. I cut up voices, laughter, sounds of machines and looped the distorted speech to give a glitch-like effect. I also reused some of the sounds throughout the piece but in different contexts and background noises. This piece is a walk through towards insanity-infilled hysteria.


Nina Koyfman