Having collected all feedback from the Work in Progress show, I tried to use it to improve the scenarios I wrote initially. Firstly I decided to abandon one of them—"Silent Rooms"—as it did not meet with a response I was hoping for. To my mind it is also not radical enough as well. I also decided to merge two scenarios together, which for the very beginning were closely connected anyway: "Soundscape Headpod" and "Headpod Adaptation Courses". Eventually, I decided to go forward with the "Sound Conditioning" scenario and a reinforced "Soundscape Headpod".
I wrote three new scenarios that have a firmer base in current scientific developments and leave more space for interpretation.
The first one, "Blasting", talks about sound conditioning treatment misused by some individuals after it had turned out to produce some strange drug-like side-effects.
The second one, "Voices in My Head", is set in the moment, when it is about to be decided whether integrating human neural system with electronic transcievers should be regarded as ethical.
The third scenario, "Artificial Silence", talks about an alternative way to fight noise pollution, which involves shifting human hearing threshold in order to adapt to changed environment.
Each scenario will be accompanied by a narrative object, which will be in a relationship with the scenario and introduce the narrative. Apart from the object (be it interactive, reactive, inactive or conceptual) I will write three stories that will take place in the envisaged environments.
