Initial Ideas for Maps and Journeys

When looking at the brief for maps and journeys I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but with the psychogeography work it gave me the idea to link the theme of being lost or stopped from going on your journey.
After realising that I don't really know what I'm going to do with my life I began to think about how I feel when I worry about my life, which is often.
When the holidays were in full swing I had a job and everything was great. I genuinely considered taking a gap year from uni and working full time to earn a bit more money.
The thought of going back to uni terrified me and the idea of the debt and similar loneliness I felt last year was not something I wanted to experience again. Granted I did enjoy uni last year, but this year I'm not in halls and without that security my anxiety and constant feeling of being paranoid has doubled.  So I thought as a way of coping with the stress I could channel it into my work.

My first idea was to use sound as the main focus, creating a space for the audience to experience how I feel on a daily basis. The idea was to recreate the panic and anxiety I often get when thinking about what I have to do to be considered successful.  My initial thoughts were to have headphones that the audience would wear and by using different frequencies create different feelings. The lower the frequency the less you can hear and the more you can feel so my idea was to layer things on top of a low frequency so you feel the sounds you are hearing.

After an hour and a big headache I figured out that the best frequency for the effect I wanted to create was around 30Hz. Just above what the human ear can hear, so there is a slight tone to the sound but you mostly feel it on your chest. I probably could have lower but with the headphones I was wearing 30Hz was the only one having the effect.
After listening to it for too long I started to get dizzy and I realised that that would be a health and safety risk so it would have to be limited to maybe 5 minutes.

As I would have to incorporate visual into this idea I felt on its own it wasn't really strong enough to stand alone as a piece. So after to talking to Laura we decided to join forces to create a stronger idea that would work better.