Developing the intervention

After finding that the plan to put sound into the site had been successful I began to develop further ideas in terms of the kind of sounds that I could implement into the site. In particular it occurred to me that it would be interesting to implement environmental sounds into and environment in which they did not correlate and see what reactions people would have to this juxtaposition of sound and environment. For example, would people react to the sound of thunder and lightning when the weather in the environment was sunny. I therefore collected three extra sounds to be played as well as the site sound model. These were crowd noise, rain with thunder, and ambient rainforest sounds. Below is a link to the different sound files I collected.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e151d9e8833e799608f8df73f2072ed64e69f587816a4ea50ac99885da44e881
To listen to the files select the one you want to hear and then select the download link to download and open the file. Once I had selected and edited these sounds to be used I then took them down to the site and carried out and documented the intervention so I could produce evidence and an overview of the intervention.

Intervention - first implementation

In order to test the effectiveness of my intervention idea, I decided to do an initial implementation into the site using the site sound model for a short period of time. I went about this by using portable speakers and my iPod to play the sound into the area. In terms of positioning the sound I wanted to put the source somewhere where it could not be seen so that the sound could not be instantly connected with the speakers and iPod. I also wanted to choose a place within my site which would be passed by the majority of people as the sound would get lost in the open environment quite easily and so it had to be in a position where it would be heard. Due to my research during the modelling stage I was aware of the most used route of travel through the site and so could use this data to help me position the sound in the best place. I therefore located the sound in a bush near this route where it would not be seen(shown below).

I hoped that this would cause people to be intrigued about the source of the sound and also surprised at its existence in the location.
When I played the sound into the site I was very pleased with the results that I obtained as I observed many reactions to the sound without the sound being intrusive into the ambience if the area. Once I had discovered that this concept worked I then started to consider ways in which I could use other sounds to create similar effects.