17. Eyes closing

Speech transcription: Clocks turning, people scrolling, cliffs diminishing, eyes closing, imp dancing, red light fading, sky travelling, waves rolling, moon turning, imp falling, line drawing, earth spinning, eyes closing, tide rising, pathway falling, thunderbolt flashing, red light glowing, heart fluttering, line drawing, eyes closing, red light flickering, earth spinning, pushing, pulling, eyes closing, rocks falling, stone crumbling, grass growing, footsteps sinking, clock hands rotating, stars ricocheting, sea trembling, surface rippling, sky blackening, coastline pulling, eyes resting, battery dying, water pushing, stone falling, hands following, red light glowing, silence falling, rubber erasing, line un-drawing, eyes closing.

Audio Description: Throughout this piece the two voices read the same text. Voice one begins, voice two then fades in so that the two overlap until it is on its own, then voice one fades in and overlaps with voice two as it fades out towards the end.

This piece includes a mixture of some of the sounds heard in the previous pieces. It begins with the swelling drone that is made up of tiny particles of orchestral instruments. Voice one begins whispering the text slowly. As the volume of the voice increases, the drone settles down until it nearly disappears, but remains hushed in the background. A medium pitched resonance gradually sneaks in between the voice and the drone. As voice one begins to get quieter, voice two subtly fades in, but at a speaking volume rather than whispering. Simultaneously, the resonance sound grows in intensity alongside voice two. The rotating, drone-like sound from a previous clip enters and helps the other drone sounds to build intensity. A new resonant and deep hum rises and falls. The narrators change the speed and pace of their words throughout. Hollow collision-type sounds cut through the mix of different drones, also panning between left and right. The repetitive rotating drone sits on top of the layered mix. At this point the piece reaches its peak in intensity. A deep echoey collision sound cuts through the noise and the intensity of the drones quickly dies down leaving only the sound of the calm resonance underneath the voice. After this, voice two dies down as voice one seeps back in, but whispering very gently. The circular drone tries to break through but remains low in volume. Echoes of the collision sound randomly intersect the now-calmer noise scape, but with a much more dispersed sound quality. As the whispering voice finishes, all of the sounds fade away apart from a hollow resonance which lingers unaccompanied until it falls into silence.