In the piece, I intend to create a ‘digital space’. This digital space is intended to be in noise cancelling headphones, in which the monologue for the audio paper can be performed. I decided to do this as this sonic environment has become a place that I inhabit for multiple hours a day, as a means to remove myself from the world around me. In Spaces speak, are you listening?, the authors state, “when listening to music with headphones, you are injected into a recorded arena and simultaneously removed from your immediate social arenas, which disappears.” This is referred to as a type of ‘sonic deafness’, which I feel is a perfect neutral environment to narrate within, introducing each section of the paper. 

To implement this will be quite easy, I have created some sounds that emulate a pair of headphones I have. These sounds will signify the noise cancellation being turned on and off. These were created in logic, using different layers of some simple synth patches. When the noise cancellation is on, I will put a Low pass filter on the field recordings, cutting to about 100hz, and when it is off, the filter will be open. Please see some screenshots below of the logic session for the NC sounds.