The sound for the Ward Room (one of the biggest, nicest spaces on the ship, used for entertaining … it even has a piano!) has been influenced by MOD’s design for narrative. It turns out that the dining table in this space had two uses … as a dining table (funnily enough), but also as the surgeon’s table if there were several injuries or the cramped Sick Bay wasn’t big enough.

So the idea for the installation piece is this: there will be two silhouettes, on of a person dining, and one of a person eating. These will change depending on where you are in the room. Similarly, the sound will change – from relatively didactic eating noises and metaphorical drawing room chamber music, to simulated sounds of surgery (not sure how I’ll do that yet, but I’m thinking percussionists with a scalpel and a watermelon sounds fun) and dissonant extended techniques from the instruments will be the kind of sound I’ll create. Perhaps I’ll actually link this all together with another drawing room sound, like a grandfather clock, so that the eating and surgery sounds can be diegetic but also slightly musical, all at once …

More to come on this one as I work on it over the next few days.