Researching Auckland Street Directory to find history for the Audio foundation building. Reason for this research is so that we can imply the history of the building to then incorporate the past then input this into the building, and to search for history of the past manufactures and businesses that were previous to the audio foundation so that we can then find natural sounds. 

We came up with an idea of incorporating relevant sounds that will relate and reflect our ideas of having randomized sounds played upon each stage and level of the building. We are treating the stairs as if it they are the back bone or spine of the body. The main aspect upon this is that we have given the building a personality as a response to the idea of the ghost in the machine elements. We will be focusing our concept of vocalising the personality of the buildings natural pre-recorded sounds through taken from the foundations of the stairs and the heavy concrete construction. We want to express the personality of the building by giving each stage of the stairs a specific name and subject that will clarify our idea. The first stage will be classified as the brain because it contains a primary light that reflects the idea. We want to personify this notion of a spine in the way that at the top of the spine there is the brain, which we are representing with logic and clarity. As we descend down the spine we reach the centre heart of the stairs, which we are representing with emotion and desire. Upon further descent we reach the bowels, which we are representing with instinct and gut feeling. This is to relate to how the heart will jump from desire to desire, unsure of what it wants. Within this level we want to create an atmosphere that implies that the building is yearning for something more in its 'life', as if there should be more to its own existence.

Conveying the ideas of having different reflecting sounds that relates to each stage of the stairs personifies the personality of each individual stage. We researched in depth history of the building so that we could incorporate our music into our idea through each level of the stair way.

Auckland Street Directory

1939 – Bedding Manufactures

Incorporating the sounds of the bedding manufactures creates a distinctive construction sound that is difficult to imply into the stages. We struggled to find some bedding machinery sounds that we could use to put into our design. To take over this idea, we are going to imply sounds from the ties factory because the sounds that relate to the bedding manufactures have very similar sounds.

1941 – 42 Anchor printers, Gum tape manufactures, Midland ltd.

Incorporating the ideas of having printing sounds as a medallic effect that we can add into the mid stage of the stair way.

1950 - 51 Anchor printers, Lingerie manufactures, Anderus and sons

To apply these sounds into our project, we couldn’t find any textual sounds that we can input in with our other sounds. This is some research that we found from the Auckland street directory. Proves that from the 1940’s to the early 50’s that some of the factories still applied.

1958 – Well styled clothes. Photo engraves.

Found no relevant music!

1964 – 65 Photo engraves. Midland

Found no interesting relevant sounds for this time of the year.

1971 – Printers enterprise.

We found some good sounds from a printer that can be used to create the notion of the week gut feeling.

1972 – Graphics holdings

1977 – Photo engraving malex trading