Sense of Space - research - 12 gates to the city

This is an interesting site that I stumbled upon which brings function and interactivity between the listener and the sounds. In ‘Old town sound walk’ the listener is guided through the old parts of Edinburgh, you are given a route and listen to the sound walk as you travel through. This is interesting as it adds functionality. It also creates a great sense of space which is quite interesting to listen to even if you aren’t doing the walk. They use stereo city sounds that cuts through the voice overs giving direction, if you’re wearing headphones, which is the intension, it feels as if the cars are driving through your head from one side to the other. This will definitely have influence in terms of the sense of space, though we probably won’t adopt the stylistic feature of asking different people directions as we wouldn’t want to replicate ‘12 gates to the city’ as we want to respond to the brief effectively, by being creative and imaginative. What is particularly interesting is the way in which the creators are drawing attention to the sounds which most people would block out without even realizing, creating a new experience for the listener.  


http://12gatestothecity.com/projects/audio-tours-soundwalks/old-town/