AMBIENT WARFARE SOUNDS DESIGNED FOR SLEEP, MEDITATION, AND REFLECTION.
ASMR Patrol (Ambient Combat), 2024
Arma 3 machinima and sound
Duration: 36 minutes
ASMR Patrol (Ambient Combat) follows soldiers along a snow-covered road through dense fog in Arma 3. Distant gunfire and explosions interrupt the quiet, creating an uneasy tension between the stillness of the landscape and the violence beyond view. Drawing on the intimate listening associated with ASMR, the work explores how the sounds of war can become strangely ambient, hovering between calm and threat.
The soundscape is constructed from Arma 3 sound files attached to objects that appear and disappear within the virtual environment. These objects function as spatial sound sources, placing combat around the patrol while keeping its origins obscured. The slow passage through snow and fog invites sustained attention to an environment where peacefulness remains inseparable from the possibility of violence...