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MULTIPLE IDENTITIES VIA THE GLOBALIZATION OF ART, MEDIA AND PERFORMANCE 121Panning is a significant aspect of my composition. Inmy soundscape, in order to allocate the differentsounds to 10 different speakers, each sound had to becarefully balanced and automated. Below is aphotographic image of the panning system for mysoundscape.Image 6: Panning structure of “The Land of Isolation”.The image above depicts the movement of sound alongdifferent speakers. The movement is complex, in orderthat the experience of being in the midst of a stormwould move through the audience. One challenge isthat when sounds are panned through differentspeakers they may begin to mix accidentally, and toconflict with each other. Careful balancing and controlof sound direction and volume is required to avoid thisissueMost of the sound levels from different locations inTerrangano and Kota Baharu were fixed on -12db, sotheir qualities were relatively equal. However, for anaudience to really understand the dynamics of thestorm and of the recording, the different sounds fromelements such as waves, forest, rain and wind needed tobe layered and balanced slightly. Below is anillustration of the volume levels of different windsound movements. By adjusting the level of each andallocating each a different speaker, there was noconflict between the different sounds.2. VolumingVolume control is needed to balance the presentationof different sounds and to prevent unexpected soundmixtures.Image 7: Volume levels and automations, wind movements.The Work of the 2010/2011 API Fellows