Immersed in Cabilla

Creating a Fulldome Experience of an Ancient Oak Woodland and Temperate Rain Forest

Saario, Antti ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2912-1354 (2024) Immersed in Cabilla. In: InMusic24: Innovation in Music 2024 Conference - Have You Tried That?, 14-16 June 2024, Kristiania University College, Oslo.

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Abstract / Summary

Have you ever experienced a temperate Atlantic rainforest? Have you ever experienced an ancient oak woodland?

The paper will present a critical-contextual account of the practical, technical-affective, and eco-philosophical considerations associated with the recording, composition and production of an immersive soundscape soundtrack to Screen Cornwall’s 2023 ‘Immersive Nature Film’ commission as part of their ‘Launching a Cornish Public Service Media’ programme funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Inspired by Cornwall Council’s Environmental Growth Strategy, and in collaboration with Cabilla Cornwall, Thousand Year Trust, Real Immersive, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Falmouth University, Screen Cornwall put out a call for expressions of interest for filmmakers based in a limited company registered in Cornwall to pitch for the creation of a 10 min 360 media work to raise awareness of Cabilla – one of the largest temperate rainforest and ancient oak woodlands in British Isles – and to help Thousand Year Trust meet their target of tripling the amount of Atlantic temperate rainforests growing in UK. The call was for the creation of a: “360º media immersive nature experience that transports audiences into a virtual experience of Cornwall’s ancient temperate rainforest through sound and image”.

The commissioned film maker will work in collaboration with Falmouth University’s Faculty of Screen, Technology and Performance researchers Dr Antti Saario and Dr D Ferrett, who will create an immersive soundscape composition for the Cabilla film and are researching the value and potential of immersive sound in amplifying the reach and impact of the project, and in engaging audiences with nature and the environment.

This film will premiere at the immersive dome at Real Immersive, Market Hall, Plymouth and will then tour on the international network of immersive domes. The fully immersive production and the need for ‘sensitive production’ presents a range of practical challenges and unique creative opportunities in relation to on-location recording of the ecosystem at the protected site, the composition of the post-acousmatic soundtrack, sound design, and the sound optimisation for 360º dome experience.

In principal terms, the research focuses on public engagement with immersive sound, and sound led eco philosophy as derived from deep listening and the idea of dark sound/dark ecologies (Ferrett 2020, Morton 2018) which in this case, are the unknown, hidden and unheard voices, sounds and systems of communication, that are part of the life forces and ecology at Cabilla, as well as the notions of network of communication and entanglement of life, as associated with Atlantic temperate rainforests.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	History, Geography & Environment Performing Arts > Music & Sound
Courses by Department:	Academy of Music & Theatre Arts
Depositing User:	Antti Saario
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2024 14:17
Last Modified:	25 Nov 2024 14:17
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5749

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