With Orion and the Goatman, I decided to explore environmental sounds both natural and deconstructed. As the play is set in a Georgia campsite, I created a surround system to immerse the audience in an evening in Georgia. With panLab and Ableton Live, I created a "birdscape" where audience members could trace birds as they flew back and forth through the woods overhead. Speakers on the ground provided crickets and environmental ambience, while a speaker hidden in the center of the campsite allowed the actors to grill burgers and roast marshmallows over a fire.

During the climax of the show, it shifts from being a quiet family drama into something more horrifying when the titular Goatman arrives onstage. For these sounds, I decided to use a Kyma system to deconstruct the sounds of goats and people laughing, screaming, crying. When laid beneath morphed growls and calls, the effect was simultaneously natural, unnatural, and horrifying.

System Diagram                                              Groundplan

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