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Sound Design by John Peeples

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With Override, as with any show I work on, you start with the script first. Without any preconceptions I sit and read through the show and try to allow myself to react to what is there. Whenever I encounter a script for the first time I tend to ‘hear’ the environment of the play as I am reading it. I don’t write anything down the first time I just read and let the play take me where it will. I just feel it. The next time I read it I will begin to mark places within the script that I feel have either musical transitions or sound effects as well as start to make a cue sheet. This will be my guide to creating those things later. This part of the process can be a bit mechanical and occasionally boring, but it can also be a time where you can sit and think about something exciting you might want to try. I tend to over design shows and know that there will be things that will be cut later on. Doing that, I try to never get too attached to particular cues, knowing that things can, and will, disappear as the design process continues.

 

Early on in the process for Override it seemed that the show had a techno feel to it. The two characters were students at an elite university and were each working on projects that could be happening now or sometime in the near future. Also, it had a rom com feel to it.

 

Starting with that information, I began by making a pre-show music playlist. This helped me focus my science fiction energies. 

 

The music I chose all came from a band that has been in existence since the 1970s and is a favorite in the electronic music scene named Tangerine Dream. They have many albums of their own and have also done more soundtracks for movies than I can count.