THE ART OF LOOKING WITH THE EAR
The sound designer enters crawls on all fours from the canyon, the cave, emerges from the shadows from beyond the back of the house, from the deep background.
She raises her head. She rises. Stands on steady legs. She enters the light.
Outstretched arms have long cleared a central place at the welcoming (tech) table.
He prepares to play a sample of his wares: not from storage or shelves or warehouses
but from a special calling within himself.
Their inner inventory, an eternal work in progress:
the sound of porcelain shattering / door slams, add echoes / bones cracking /
clanging, rattling of old steam radiators / explosion of burst balloons / cannon blasts /
champagne exploding /
rice in a can/pebbles in a can ...
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