Sense of Space - Piece Three

Piece Three - Jarman's Garden
By - Sherre Delys
Year - 2000
Length - 14 mins 49 secs

This piece was very confusing to listen to, yet inspiring at the same time. The way this sound scape had been built up and constructed was very clever as there were around 7 different layers of sounds occurring at any one time. Various noises associated with outdoors and garden such as peoples footsteps in gravel/pebbles, wind chimes, the wind itself, plants/trees/grass being cut/altered with etc. These were all occurring one after the other with both a low deep base piece of music and a high one, so with all this going on at once, it was hard to focus on the narrative of the piece as the voice over wasn't the thing that came to my immediate attention like it did in the other pieces.

Within the piece (with it being nearly 15 minutes) there are many places in which the sound effects fade out and there are a few seconds of silence and you think the piece has finished, then the noises would slowly start again. I like this technique used and found it effective as to me, it felt like the few seconds of silence were representing how peaceful and tranquil this garden is to be in and when your there everything disappears and it simply is silent.

The ending of the piece was my favourite part overall. the slow rustle of the waves and the slow paced footsteps in the pebble dashed beach really made me feel peaceful and calm and felt like I was sitting in this garden and looking towards this beach.