This practice-based research investigates compositional strategies for creating immersive and intimate experiences of audiovisual landscape; integrating field recordings, musical instrumentation, and sound design with moving image. It is proposed that harnessing the tactility of sound, within this integrated approach, can elicit a multimodal sensory response to the audiovisual stimulus, where we not only see and hear the landscape, but feel as though we are within it. The creative strategies prioritise a novel philosophy of composing with the landscape, rather than about the landscape. Here, environmental sounds from site inform musical instrumentation, moving image and sound design in a reciprocal relationship to evince a sense of place. This results in a unique audiovisual aesthetic; combining the slow contemplative visual style of landscape film with the creative affordances of multimodal perception, the integrated soundtrack, and spatial audio technologies, to help realise a cinematic and immersive experience of landscape. Multiuser head tracked binaural Ambisonics synchronised with multi-screen projection, is proposed as a novel method of presentation for such work; one which protects and enhances the intimacy, intricacy and immersivity of the material. This research inquiry is investigated though the creation and presentation of Oden; an audiovisual installation, portraying the changing seasonal sights and sounds Peak District. This research will be of benefit to composers, sound practitioners, and filmmakers, especially those working within the realms of landscape or field recording, who wish to evoke an immersive experience of place. In addition, the resulting artistic works offer audiences novel audiovisual experiences of the natural world and associated wellbeing benefits
| Date of Award | 12 Sep 2024 |
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| Original language | English |
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| Supervisor | Geoff Cox (Main Supervisor) & Monty Adkins (Co-Supervisor) |
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