This piece features four audio tracks total. The first sound one hears as it fades in and out is a Brownian noise meant to represent the quintessential sound of a beach with the tide coming in. After six seconds go by, a DTMF tone track begins to play. This track features the use of a phaser effect, along with alternating volumes and is meant to represent a warped or surreal sound of a metal detector. At approximately 23 seconds, the third track begins. This track is a recording of my voice that has been stretched and altered. It is meant to represent a dissatisfied sound from a human being. At almost 24 seconds in to the audio, all three current tracks cease to be audible. This is in response to the first “yell” of track three. The sounds resume normally minus the “metal detector” fading out. At 49 seconds, the fourth track plays accompanied by the Brownian noise and the remnants of the third track. This is my voice with bass deepened, inverted, and reversed. Thematically this represents the speech of the satanic metal detector directed at the human.

Man Yells At Satanic Metal Detector And Everything Stops To Listen

Opening a Portal from Both Sides features three distinct audio tracks. Track one is the result of using the paulstretch effect, reversing, and echoing a vocal recording in which the bass was already very noticeable. The second track was achieved through the use of a toilet flush. The toilet recording in the first instance has been altered with an inversion, a stretch, and with some extra reverb. When the sound clip is played again, it has been reversed, inverted, and stretched considerably far. The third track features a sound effect in which I make use of erratic timing, quick duplication, and volume to create a sense of urgency. The first instance in which the third track is audible is played with very little editing, and the second instance is reversed.
	My goal with this piece was to create an awareness of separate spatial entities. By adding an echo to the vocal track, along with the sounds of water flowing through the pipes of a toilet, I hoped that a listener might experience the piece as if they were listening to two different sides of an event. In this case, the event is the creation of a portal between two places with the vocal track representing two different people saying the same chant to open this portal. I felt as though the pipe-like reverberations of sound would suggest a passage of some manner. I wanted the spectator to feel as though they were removed from either setting, as if they were watching a movie, but to still understand that the piece occupies more than one “physical” setting in the mind.

Opening A Portal From Both Sides

Big Fire MicroSound

This is an early draft of audio I recorded on the trails minutes away from the Heller Center. It features only normalization editing so far, but I intend to edit it a bit more for the final iteration to make it easier to listen to. Listen to this as loud as you feel comfortable with.

Sonic Urban Wilderness Study Project Draft

In this short study, I put together and edited many sounds in order to bring to light the transitional history of the city of Colorado Springs. In the audio, I have created an almost desolate battle between sickness and health, people against people, and industry versus nature.

Vincent Grego