One of my aims for ‘The Fourth Man’ is to create a sense of immersion within in the space of the piece, my initial approach was to do the usual formula of sound in both diegetic and non-diegetic form (score and ambience, sound effects and soundscape) under the speech, but recently I have felt this approach to be too in my comfort zone. With this experiment I’ve tried to mess around with space using the DearVR plugin which allows for a good control over the direction of a sound source. Inspired by my classmate Buki’s idea to move the voice around and have it be the ‘fourth man’ I’ve used it to move the voice around the listener
here I’ve bounced a set of footsteps from freesound with the voice and moved that recording around so it seems as if there is a figure physically moving around the listener, I’ve tried to subtly (or not so subtly) move the sound around in a way that’s incongruous with the footsteps, hopefully having a slightly off-putting effect.
Unfortunately I still feel this isn’t a big enough difference with how I usually do things, it still feels like narration with sound effects, I think my next steps will have to be something that cuts up the flow of the voice, perhaps warping it or adding it into a sampler. I’ve always had the desire to try and feed speech through a granular synth and to then try and piece together the original sentence with the fragments that come out the other end with a great deal of editing.