Update!

March 1st - 20th
I have done some research into the main bulk of materials I'm going to need, measurements and stuff, kept me pretty busy. I was aware I hadn't spent as much time lately concerning myself with the sound side of the project so I have booked a load of dates in Room 222, which is pretty good now. Has a good speaker setup already to use. Was fairly straight forward setting my laptop up to mix in 7.1

Starting to collect more materials now just need to raise more funds!

By the way don't apply for Access to Learning Fund if you parents went 'Non-Income Assessed'. I spent about two weeks getting all the stuff together only to find out I couldn't apply! You can still change it so you parents can get income assessed just adds another month or so onto everything.

FEB 2nd - 17th
Since the last post I have recorded about 120 mins of field recordings from the mapped out areas in Brighton. It was quite a fun thing to do, people always look at you pretty funny when you walk about with big headphones and a large mic with a windshield on it!

I also found that the original plan of recording from under trees pretty annoying as I was always about 30ft away from what i wanted to record. So, instead I chose better quality recordings over the availability of trees, think it was wise. Still the concept remains as I always intended for it to be a soundscape of Brighton and also the title ' The Listening Tree' relates to one 'mother' tree, which tells a history of what she/it supposedly heard through her/it's life. I'll still have a tree representing each area though.

Tree Map

Here's a map of the 8 areas of Brighton I have decided to take recordings from.

They roughly spread around the perimeter of Brighton and are good sound marks/characteristics of Brighton's soundscape.

I have decided to record 20 minutes from each position but at different times of the day in order to capture the varieties in sound activity.

10 to 8 Trees

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The original plan was to record from 10 trees but it would seem it's not possible to mix 10 separate audio outputs in Logic. There's a way to do it in MAX MSP but I think I'm going to do it in 7.1 instead, in Logic, and then mix it with the 8 speaker setup in room 222, although, that room's is completely full of junk at the moment and I'm not sure DMSA students have access to it yet?