This piece was commissioned by the Made In Temple Bar Festival in Dublin, Ireland, and it is a glimpse into the Temple Bar Area at different times of the day and year. Lawrence picks out some beautiful sounds; the crackle and crunch of ice, the birds, the buzzing cosmopolitain nightlife and even the sewer rats.
What I find most interesting about this piece is the way that it will be heard. It is part of a scheme in the festival called Lights Out Listening, where members of the public will gather together to listen to documentaries in the dark. The experience will be shared together; as the description suggests, a bit like going to the cinema rather than watching a DVD.
I think this piece is well recorded and flows very niely, taking us on a journey through the night hours, taking us away from human contact, and then bringing it back round to the town waking up again. This circularity makes the piece have a definitive and comfortable ending, and the narration adds to the feeling that you can understand what you are listening to.
The piece does lack a narrative, but because it is simply a soundscape, it doesn't matter. It just works.
Doing a simple soundscape is an option for our project. I would like to keep researching and looking at more narrative pieces (both fictional and non-fictional) and pieces that do not have any dialogue at all.
Hidden Sounds of Temple Bar
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