KEIRA J. SIMMONS
Portfolio of Works
Impulsion
Reimagined Field Recording, 2019
My contribution to the Yellowstone Project with Cities and Memory, a collaborative sound map project based in Oxford, UK. This track was chosen to be on the highlights album.
To reimagine a field recording of the Clark's Nutcracker I used various granular synthesis and sampling techniques composed a long ambient track for the sound map.
Anthropology of the Future
Short Film, Sound Designer/Composer, 2018
A series of 6 chapters that explores the future of humanity through the embodiment of the future in evolving creatures. As set sound recordist and sound designer/composer for this project I composed imaginative soundscapes and sound worlds for each vignette, creating a dreamlike speculation of the future through the eyes of hybrid creatures.
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Direction: Alexis Gambis (France/USA).
Life Cycle
Short animated film, Sound Designer/Composer, 2017
Collaboration with visual artist and filmmaker Harshini J. Karunaratne specifically for Tokyo Big Sight. It was submitted to the second edition of the Tokyo International Projection Mapping Awards (TIPMA), and received the Jury Award by the panel of judges.
A meditation on the passing of time through the metaphor of cherry blossoms. Read more at https://harshinijk.com/portfolio_page/life-cycle-tipma/.
Barely Breathing
Video Installation, Sound Designer, 2017
Terrifying and lonely deep-dive into the experience of an anxiety attack. In this sound design I used psychoacoustics to induce (light) feelings of anxiety in listeners, raising their heartbeats and quickening their breath with along with the actress. This was my first complete sound design for a short film.
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Direction: Anneliese Lee-Reid (USA)
#florence
Experimental Video Installation, Sound Designer, 2016
Sound design for Harshini J. Karunaratne's multi-channel video installation exhibited at the La Pietra Dialogues in Florence, Italy. #florence explores the value of image making on social media through the tourist gaze. The sound design is slow and alarming, to accompany slowly changing, glitch-filled video. My first installation sound design. Read more at:
The Wanderer
Sound Poem, composer/performer, 2016
Collaboration with writer Kuvonn Richardson, this piece is composed of found sounds from my travels in Europe and a live reading of a segment from the poem, exploring the role of a traveller and the idea of feeling in between, a traveller, not belonging anywhere in particular.​ Inspired by Kaija Saairaho's 'Stilleben', this was my first entry into composing with field recordings.