A Study of Cinematic Sounds (sound collage, 2026)

Hello there. This is another sound collage that I made by chopping up audio from 15 different films in the public domain. I cut a minute of audio from each film and stitched them together. Normally when I combine different audio files together, It automatically crossfade between each section to create a seamless experience. This time around I wanted to to something a bit different. Instead of seamless transitions, it’s more jarring and abrupt, creating a sense of instability. After creating an initial 15-minute “audio chain”, I repeated the process six more times, changing around the order of each movie and using different scenes so as to avoid a predictable structure. Finally, I layered together all seven audio chains in my DAW, adding different effects to each track. If you notice, there’s two versions in this post. The main difference between the two is that the second version (at the top) features additional effects like backmasking and 3D audio and the volume for each track vari