“The Idea of the North” confused me a lot. Why were there all those voices overlapping at the start? I gathered it was a recount of the arctic, a representation of events in the north through people telling stories. It was really difficult to listen to. I get that it was artistic and abstract, however, I couldn’t focus on any voice since I almost felt schizophrenic during the first few minutes. I realised the audio of different tracks were dropping in and out so that the one or the other were in focus however it wasn’t done in any sort of clever arrangement so I would randomly hear words like “polar bear” and “birds”, without understanding their context. It was pretty boring and quite messy. It felt outdated, maybe because the lack of sound design. The rest of the piece at least had a few sound effects here and there to give the piece some texture. Different people spoke about the North and what that meant to them.