Birds of a Feather for Radio Eye by Kyla Brettle began with the sense that this production is set in a suburban house with hard floors, perhaps linoleum, and one of those tacky returning doors that swing shut and bounce on their frame. The Producer voice drops in to tell us more about where we are and what we’re doing… we are in the home of scheming activists planing a guerrilla style covert rescue for neglected chickens in a battery environment. The field recording was surprisingly clean with no wind noise or interference, I wondered if maybe much of the field noise had been recorded separately, like with the suspense evoking heart beat.
I began thinking about my studio piece for the 24 Folio and how I might source and create studio sounds to tell my sonic story of the Yarra location I’ve chosen… sans chickens and with yidaki (didgeridoo).