The Sound Machine

 


This was a radio drama based on the short story, "The Sound Machine" by Roald Dahl. It was
co-produced by Colin Doerr-Newton and I. We directed, recorded, sound designed, and mixed the entire project.

For sound designing he primarily worked on the "real world" environment, and I focused on when the sound machine was turned on, but we both shared our ideas on what each should be.

When Klausner (the main character) turns on the sound machine he is supposed to hear things that humans normally don't hear, such as plants screaming in pain. To create this unreal soundscape I used Logic's Sculpture modeling synth, and Logic's Flex Time. The flower's screams and the tree's screams are actually based off of the same sound, but the flower's screams are played back fast to pitch it up and the tree's scream is played back extremely slow to pitch it down.