Playwright in the Sound Store

I took my first sound design class on Saturday. It was a four-hour workshop and more specifically related to film, animation, and video-game work. I wish I could say that I feel confident in whipping out a sound design, but I don't. Just like I don't call myself a lighting designer because I took a lighting design class. What I do have, as a playwright and a devisor, is one more toy to play with.

And that's what I was most aware of while I was searching and pulling sounds from freesound.org: I was doing it as a playwright. I was writing with sound, composing with sounds, finding text and isolating phrases so that I could devise around them. This has added a whole new dimension to the creative process. I realize I haven't discovered anything new here. It was just exciting to find this new (for me) way of creating characters or adding details to characters by running random searches for sound and text. I'm always looking for ways to get me out of my own head, ways to collaborate with the universe so to speak. In the past, I've been reliant on a sound designer to do this - after the fact. I've always wanted to do it during the playwrighting/devising process. I feel like I've stepped out of my cave and into the light (or...um...sound rather).