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The Prince and The Magician
This sound design is based of the text of a short story from John Fowles "The Magus", trying to capture the feelings of the prince as he progresses throughout the story. The design was mixed in stereo, binaural, 5-1, and 1st & 3rd order ambisonics formats.
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Picture Credit: Harleen Singh
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The Prince and The Magician
From The Magus by John Fowels
Once upon the time there was a young prince, who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father the king, told him that such things did not exist. As there were no princesses or islands in his father's domains, and no sign of God, the young Prince believes his father.
But then one day, the prince ran away from his palace. He came to the next land. There, to his astonishment, from every coast he saw islands, and on these islands, strange and troubling creatures whom he dared not name. As he was searching for a boat, a man and full evening dress approached him along the shore.
‘Are those real islands?’ asked the young Prince. ‘Of course they are real islands,’ said the man in evening dress.
‘And those strange and troubling creatures?’
‘They are all genuine authentic princesses.’
‘Then God also must exist!’ cried the prince.
‘I am God,’ replied the man in full evening dress, with a bow.
The young Prince returned home as quickly as he could.
‘So you are back,’ said his father, the king.
‘I have seen islands, I have seen princesses, I have seen God,’ said the prince reproachfully.
The king was unmoved.
‘Neither a real islands nor real princesses, nor a real God exist.’
‘I saw them!’
‘Tell me how God was dressed.’
‘God was in full evening dress.’
‘Where the sleeves of his coat rolled back?’
The prince remembered that they had been. The king smiled.
‘That is the uniform of a music magician. You have been deceived.’
At this, the prince returned to the next land, and went to the same shore, where once again he came upon the man in full evening dress.
‘My father the king has told me who you are,’ said the young prince indignantly. ‘You deceived me last time, but not again. Now I know that those are not real islands and real princesses, because you are a magician.’
The man on the shore smiled.
‘It is you who are deceived, my boy. In your father's Kingdom there are many islands and many princesses. But you are under your father’s spell, so you cannot see them.’
The prince returned pensively home. When he saw his father, he looked him in the eyes.
‘Father, is it true that you are not a real king but only a magician?’
The king smiled and rolled back his sleeves.
‘Yes, my son, I am only a magician.’
‘Then the man on the shore was God.’
‘The man on the shore was another magician.’
‘I must know the real truth, the truth beyond magic.’
‘There is no truth beyond magic,’ said the king.
The prince was full of sadness.
He said, ‘I will kill myself.’
The king by magic cause death to appear. Death stood in the door and beckoned to the prince. The prince shuddered. He remembered the beautiful but unreal islands and the unreal but beautiful princess.
‘Very well,’ he said. ‘I can bear it.’
‘You see my son,’ said the king, ‘you too now begin to be a magician.’
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Audio Art Installation
This Installation was created for completion of my Bachelor of Arts Degree with a focus in Music & New Media at the University of Louisville in April of 2021. The Installation focuses on the realtionship between nature and spirituality using sound as an otherworldy medium, allowing the viewer to see things that are normally beyond their capability.
Documentation Video
Recorded and Edited by Andrew Ramsey
Early Development
In early phases of development started with taking apart an old partially broken desktop speaker and experimenting with creating standing waves, and creating an interesting way to trigger the low frequencies creating the waves. This was then expanded to a slightly larger scale using a baking sheet filled with water that was taped to a bass amp to create the standing waves in a mockup of how I wanted the end goal to be set up.
These preliminary phases gave me insight into many problems that came up before I crafted the larger water basin using a DaytonAudio Speaker Exciter, allowing me to fulfill my plans in a well put together and engaging setup.
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