I will Begin with a brief question “imagining a world with no language”. The purpose of my piece is to provoke internal thinking on whether language is more important than surrounding sounds. I will be narrating information on the importance of our surrounding sounds and how it affects us mentally and physically. Throughout the entire piece, it will be entirely set in my Grandmothers garden. Surrounded sounds taken from the garden will create a woven collage soundscape. Following this piece I will play answer questions by my grandma on her experiences in the garden sonically and how it has changed/affected her through the years. This will then go into her speech about going deaf and familiar sounds. I will play around with soundscapes to create different POVs of sonically different abilities. My intentions are to immerse the listener into the point of view of a victim who is losing the ability to hear; in order to provoke a reflective emotional response. I hope to touch and reach out to people who have generally good health hearing and to make them ask themselves whether they value speech or surrounding sounds to connect themselves to the world.
I am aware when doing this that I have to be extremely respectful to the audience I am reaching and the people who suffer from the issues I am talking about. In order of achieving this, I know that I have to be as truthful as possible in my work and the way in which I chose to edit.
Overall I hope to portray a great message about how we appreciate listening in a respectful yet meaningful way.