Sound Scape Proposal

For this assignment our task is to collect a series of sounds that plunge the listener into the exact environment to which they came from. Sounds simple?
After days of consideration i have settled on my idea. I didn't want just one simple location or experience to record, i wanted to bring together a collection of places and ideas to create a real complex sound scape.
I chose to do mine based upon a cafe. I felt the collection of people chatting, eating, drinking, the exchange of money and music would make for a wonderfully full and interesting sound scape. However while walking through Bath looking for a good location i stumbled on gold. On the other side of the river, hidden away in the corner of a small walk way was 'the River side Café':




The idea of mixing the sounds of a Café AND a river, in my opinion, will make for a far more exciting soundscape.

I have made a list of possible recordings i should make:

kettle boiling
sizzle of cooking
toast popping
spread of butter
clink of cutlery
cups and saucers
sound of steamer
sipping
eating
water running
lid going on pan of boiling water
river
general public chatting
music
footsteps down to cafe
running water
splashes
birds and wildlife

I remembered an commercial i has seen on TV a while back advertising Lurpak. It incorporates many of the sounds I plan to use in my sound scape and is extremely effective at making the viewer want to eat. In my opinion it would be just as effective without the imagery that is used. This is why i have chosen to reference it:



To record my sound scape I have hired an Edirol R-1 from the university...lets see how it goes!