Anxiety

Sound Project, Theory & Practice: Anxiety

(by Gresë Kelmendi, Aneta Sentivanová & Matěj Zídekhi)

 

This sound scape represents the phases of anxiety and aims to explain how anxiety feels. It starts out with the sounds of a road at midnight while more and more sounds such as the sound of a canal, a crowd, clicking, etc. are added to the scape. Little by little it reaches a climax where the listener barely can isolate the sounds anymore and feels overwhelmed by the unfiltered noise. Fortunately, the chaos eases when one sound after another vanishes until we reach our starting point, namely the road at midnight. This is similar to anxiety. Anxiety sneaks into somebody's head and overwhelms a person until a point of overstimulation. After a while calmness takes over and eases the anxiety by creating clarity.