Immersive Storytelling
This piece tells a portion of "There Will Come Soft Rain" by Ray Bradbury using spatial audio. Music and sound effects are added to enhance the world building.
While the project was originally created for surround sound systems set up in a room, you can also listen to a version intended for two speakers. Listening with headphones is recommended.
(Watch the video with sound by clicking the speaker icon in the corner)​​
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I developed this project with Gia Boudreau using Reaper. We decided to bring "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury to life because of all the auditory imagery present. The project was originally developed for a system that consisted of 7 speakers and 1 subwoofer (a map of the space is below to the left). The video above is a recording of it playing in that space.
We then expanded the project to include more of the short story and played in a room with 40 speakers and 4 subwoofers (a map of the space is above to the right). Below is a video of that.
A screenshot of part of the Reaper file.