HW2 - Radioplay

Brian Gurewitz

10/29/13


Binaural Stereo File:

hw2.wav


Four Individual Wave Files:

LeftFront.wav

RightFront.wav

LeftRear.wav

RightRear.wav


4channelPlayer:

4channelPlayer.ck


Binaural4:

Binaural4.ck


binauralSlates:

binauralSlates.ck


Explanation of project:


(NOTE: Listen first to see if you can interpret it without reading... I'm curious...)


This radioplay consists of a man calling his ex-girlfriend on the phone while he is re-living the memory of their first meeting, beside a waterfall. The man exits his car, calls her, and walks down a path toward the waterfall, which comes up on his left. We discover that their breakup was due to a unfortunate difference in career needs. They still have warm feelings towards each other, though they had agreed not to talk.


I used panning to try to convey a sense of location for sound effects around the man's head. The sound effects used include:


Because the scene is outdoors, I didn't use any reverb for enclosed spaces.


I recorded both voices myself and edited them into a conversation. For the woman's voice, I raised the pitch slightly to help my acting. I also experimented with some bandpass and other effects to try to make her voice sound more like it was coming from a telephone. When those attempts generally failed, I simply recorded a voice memo on my phone and then re-recorded that voice memo into the microphone in the studio (so it is actually coming from a phone).