SOUND AND AMBIENCE
The technique that I chose is ‘as an orchestra playing in the traffic’. I tried to follow John Cage’s Fontana Mix, that record some different sounds of the traffic in the city and then combine them into one piece. Cage states Fontana Mix as “a camera from which anyone can take a photograph.”. One perspective said, John Cage’s Fontana Mix consists many different sounds. He divided the sound into six classes, there are city sounds, country sounds, electronic sounds, manually produced, wind-produced sounds, and small sounds that require amplification. So the audience can visualize them. I used some types of method to represent different sound such as dots for the water, straight lines for the traffic, and squiggly lines for the paper and the dotted line for the wind. I tried to compose four different sounds of the pedestrian city traffic lfor the audience. In this work, the audience will find out that Sydney is a busy place where much traffic and activities in the street but we can still find some nature place such as some beaches and others.
References
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1. Dave Lewis, Fontana Mix, for 4-channel tape or indeterminate means | Details | AllMusic, AllMusic, viewed on 30 May 2016,<http://www.allmusic.com/composition/fontana-mix-for-4-channel-tape-or-indeterminate-means-mc0002423811>
2. TheWelleszCompany, 2011, John Cage: Aria (Fontana Mix) (1958) — YouTube, viewed on 29 May 2016<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15xkowPEPg>
