Using Audacity andyour choice of sound sources, you are to create two distinct, representational "sound spaces," starting with one and transitioning into the other.

Aim for your whole piece to last around 1-2 minutes.

Your "pictures" should be constructed out of a clear three-level spatial structure, containing three simultaneous layers of sound: a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. Sounds in different layers of depth should be recorded separately and mixed together, instead of recorded in unison.

In all three levels, your sounds should be unique and chosen carefully, but it is sometimes helpful to think of these levels as increasingly specific as they rise up a pyramid-like structure. Those in the base layer, the background, are usually less distinct, even ambient, but are often needed through out the 30 second picture. The middle-ground levels of the second layer are often a little more distinct, perhaps the noises of other people in the room, and can more easily fluctuate, hesitate, change. The foreground sound is usually the loudest, the clearest, and the least reverberating. It also may not need to be present more than for one quick appearance.

You employ sounds from any source,but you may only employ music or human voices in the background or middle ground.

Post your final piece online as a message board post, with a title of your choice under the Sound Passage forum.

Consider:

• choice of sound (identity, specificity)
• juxtaposition (how do sounds mixed together create space and meaning)
• volume of playback in the mix
• conditions of original recording scenario
• reverb or other illusion of space introduced in production

**UPDATE**

There are 5 examples of mixed sound spaces that move between spaces here. They are:

1 - an "audio walk" by Janet Cardiff (cardiff.mp3)
2 -' Colateralmente Destrozado', remix from field recordings, by Cornucopia (cornucopia.mp3)
3- 'Three Minutes of Mardi Gras', remix from field recordings, by Christopher DeLaurent (mardi.mp3)
4-'Le Souterrain' by Pierre Thoma (sout.mp3)- a collage of spaces
5.- excerpt from 'The Sunshine Hotel', a radio documentary by David Isay (sunshine.mp3)
6- the first few minutes of the famous Orson Welles radio theater broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" (worlds.mov)