Sirens was a big undertaking as it was nearly an hour and a half show and has music or sound throughout. 

It was fun playing with where the line between sound and music is and how those two merge. I created a lot of ambient textures which could turn into music or simple background sound when necessary.

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Being through composed it gave me the chance to really support and tell the entire story with sound.

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Sirens was also completely accessible for d/Deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing audiences, and one of the cast was profoundly Deaf. 

I had a lot of fun using really subby bass and low frequency sounds, as these are often easier to hear or to feel the vibrations for some d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing people.*

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The challenge was using these low frequency sounds, subby bass and strong drum beats without making it too intense for any of the audience. An exciting challenge!

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*Unfortunately you won't get the full effect of these low sounds through laptop speakers or headphones and I have taken them down in these samples for that reason.