Pauric Freeman, Aphotic Depth

Pauric Freeman is an electronic music producer, sound designer and technologist from Co. Monaghan. He graduated with a BA in Communications in Creative Media in 2011, where he focused on installation-based interactive music generation. His interest with sound has developed in recent years to include the relationships between audio and visual content, which he has explored during his Masters study. Pauric graduated with a M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College in May 2013.

Aphotic Depth is an audio-visual Sonata that draws upon Jungian psychology for character development. Visually influenced by French avant-garde cinema, this psychological paradox experiments in film arrangement by utilising Sonata form as a guide for visual arrangement. Sonata form introduces, develops and resolves through the use of themes, in this context producing an alternative methodology to traditional film structure.

The soundtrack is constructed from found sound recordings. By addressing techniques presented through Musique Concrète, processes of the audio recordings were manipulated to construct both pitched and percussive sounds. Aphotic Depth premiered in May 2013 at I Hear a New World in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin.