My plan for the exquisite corpse soundscape is to tell some kind of story through the sound, following a narrative arc/plot mountain structure where there is a climax where the sound is the craziest and most intense.
There are many possibilities for the story. One story could depict someone who is slowly going insane until they reach a breaking point at the climax, and then there is some form of acceptance or peace as the story resolves. The only issue is that I think this may be a difficult theme to convey accurately or for people to guess, depending on what sounds I choose. But I think it would be more apparent if I had sounds that conveyed elements of horror, such as a door creaking or sharp sounds like a lighter (both from Jake Summer’s folder). I could also incorporate voices that people have recorded and distort them. In the beginning, the sounds will be more normal and mundane, but as the character gets crazier, the sounds will become more distorted and more intense and the character’s paranoia will show through sounds that convey horror. After the climax, there could be an eerie quietness all of a sudden to show how the character has lost his mind, something snapped, and now his mind is blank.
Other cool sounds that I could incorporate include radiators, humming, laughing, screaming, obsessive tapping, etc.
Another similar story is where we follow someone’s daily routine but it gets weirder as the sounds progress. I could see this story involving the repetition of sounds in the same order to represent the daily routine, but each time the routine is repeated, something is distorted until the sounds don’t make sense from what they originally were.
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