I have begun working on my piece, advancing on the score I made last week. The idea of rear listening and making it the forefront of the piece remains. I began by finding a clip of a trimmer sound, pitching it down, adding some distortion and panning a reversed copy to left and right channels at the back. This created a sense of urgency and a sense of awareness immediately that I was aiming for.
I then copied the audio from the processed trimmer and turned it into midi, using those notes to play using a synth that also had a buzzy characteristic to it. Being the early stages, this was as far as I got – I mostly tried to listen and see what I wanted to continue doing analysing how it sounded on the system. I still want the piece to be more conversational and play and interact between the rear end speakers and front speakers.
Although very rough right now, the basic idea and bare bones of the piece have been laid down. I mainly focused on implementing the rear audio sounds for now as I do not really have an idea of what I want to do yet for the sounds in-front.