Soundscape Narrative: "Coffee Shop Conversations"

Students were asked to "arrange layers of sound to convey a sense of place and story" for this assignment. Professor Ben Miller's nomination comments on this project: "This was a really impressive project, easily one of the best in the class. Tyller recruited friends who work at a coffee cart to play versions of themselves, with a script based on the quirky questions they ask each other and the free-ranging speculative conversations that follow. The repetition of customer service is enacted in coffee pours and cash register drawers; an upbeat light-jazz soundtrack helps establish the sense of somewhat dreamy continuity that come-and-go customers might miss – except when the stars begin to tune out."