Spectral Soundscape Composition

This piece was the final project I created at the end of the 5-day Perception-Based Orchestration workshop offered at CCRMA over the summer. This piece was an exploration of spectral editing with environmental field recordings of crickets in the Palo Alto area as the main focal point. The driving concept behind this work was the idea of hyperreality, creating a simulated version of reality and then augmenting it to blur the lines between what is "real" and not. This was done through strategic spectral editing, either by completely omitting certain frequency bands at times, emphasizing them, or mixing and matching frequencies between different recordings.