Kelly Barron

RTF 331T

Project 2 Proposal

	For this next project I would like to play off the idea of Schaeffer's musique concrete.  The 

soundscape I use will incorporate the idea of utilizing modern, recognizable sounds and manipulate 

them to a somewhat undiscernable noise.  All these sounds will be set on top of a bed of musical 

layering.  The point I will attempt to make is that though the sounds have been manipulated, they 

will still, in their essence, create the same feeling and emotion stirred by their original forms.  

I want to use an event that many people have encountered in their time here at the university and 

record the sounds that occur during that event.  

	My plan is to capture the sounds eminated during sexual intercourse.  I don't, however, want 

to create a soundtrack to a psycho porno.  This distinction will be made by using music that one 

does not normally associate with sex but still prompt the same reaction.  Combining the artificial 

beat and rhythm of music with the natural ones made during intercourse will create within itself an 

individual sound.  

	Though I have several sounds in mind that I intend to include, here are five sounds that I 

have yet to capture.  First I want to add living sound.  What I mean by this is that I need to have 

sounds that a human creates.  Sounds that personalize a very mechanical combination of sounds 

without making it too realistic.  If you will, imagine a typical moan, sigh or pant but distorted 

in such a way that you would not automatically link to sex but is still noticably human, simply 

altered.  These sounds will be used in conjuction with things like buckles being latched and 

unlatched, zippers undone, snaps opening and closing, springs in beds bouncing and flesh slapped 

against eachother.  

	As far as a method of composition, my soundscape will outline the series of events involved in 

sexual intercourse.  It will highlight climactic moments with speed and volume as well as have a 

narrative beginning and end.  The flow will come with smooth transitions not to exclude the 

constant beat created through chaos and spontaneity.  This will be acomplished by having fluid 

music in the background with a foregroud spawn from reality.  I'm anxious to see what final product 

I produce with these sounds.