Sound Design: Realistic Environment

*Originally submitted October 16th, 2019 for the Sound Design course at the University of Virginia

This piece was submitted as the second of four projects for the Sound Design course at UVa. The second project was creating a realistic sound environment. The purpose of this assignment was to create a realistic soundscape using pre-recorded sounds and mix them, so that the listener, when using headphones, feels as though they are immersed in that environment. The environment I recreated was a library. I began by laying down a medium/large room tone, and layered multiple sounds on top of this. Sounds include typing on a keyboard, flipping through a book, listening to music through headphones, pulling out a chair, opening a backpack, and a printer. All sounds must be properly mixed in order to create a realistic environment.