Audio Immersion

I've been having a lot of fun playing with the computers in the media center this week.  They're all Apple G4s with 23 inch screens and the Logic Studio Pack pre-installed.  If you don't know logic, it's basically a sound production tool that lies between Finale (all about the notes) and ProTools (all about the mixing).  It has tons of cool sounds that I can use- pretty much anything you can imagine.  It even has the Chinese Erhu Violin.  Now that's a sound library right there.

What I've been debating myself about is whether or not to use this concept/demo CD to create an immersive audio environment.  What I mean by that is taking sounds, such as ambiant noises, footsteps, gunshots... whatever... and putting them into the songs in order to make them more realistic.

For example, I took the song "Love That Will Never Die" and I first put it through a classical guitar sampler.  This makes it sound like someone is actually playing guitar (or at least as close as I can get with a computer).  After that, I grabbed some ambient noise- a dark city street- wind, rustling, etc- and then some footsteps, as if someone is walking down the path.  A latch to some sort of case opens, and a few seconds later a guitar begins to play.

I think that's much more powerful than just explaining to a listener how the show opens- it allows the listener be immersed in the world without necessarily seeing it on a stage.  

I'm sure I'll be talking a lot in the near future about the G4 computers and the CD creation process in general.  I had my first meeting with my female singers on Thursday, and they were quite good.  It's getting to be about that time when I should start asking my artist and graphic design friends if they can come up with some promotional images...