{"id":4699,"date":"2012-12-05T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2012-12-05T19:51:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T19:51:24","slug":"super-8-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=4699","title":{"rendered":"Super 8 projector – 05 December"},"content":{"rendered":"

This sound was recorded to go with BADDA 4380 in Sonic Wallpapers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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BADDA 4380, image © MoDA Museum and used with kind permission<\/p>\n

This wallpaper design with its graphic star-bursts inspired a range of responses from ‘that looks like fireworks’ to ‘that reminds me of a child’s bedroom’. Joceline said that it reminded her of a 1950s cinema, and this gave me the idea that the piece could be structured around the sounds of my old super8 projector. It doesn’t sound exactly<\/em> like an old cinema projector, but it’s as close as I could get on a tight budget! I made the actual piece the same length as a short roll of super8 film running through my projector, and decided to use this sound to suggest a movie running in the background, with other sounds coming in over the top. The sound of the Super-8 projector recedes and fades throughout the Sonic Wallpaper<\/em> piece for BADDA 4380, and recording it was both fun and frustrating, as my projector has a horrible tendency to chew up old film and melt the celluloid. It’s an old EUMIG projector, and I can never remember what all the buttons mean.<\/p>\n

listen to ‘Super 8 film projector’ on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n