For Sender by Ike Holter, I was the sound designer, composer, and sound engineer. It was important to the director of the production that the audience feel as if they were really in Chicago. I achieved this by using many different sounds of the city: people shouting, dogs barking, sirens, airplanes, garbage trucks, crickets, birds, and traffic. The play takes place on the 4th of July— rather than using one long track of fireworks, I took individual firework explosions and planted them at specific places in the script. Sender takes place over 3 days, and has several scene transitions taking us from night to day. For these transitions, I created a main theme using guitars, a banjo, and a synthesizer. This theme becomes more elaborate, but darker, as the play continues.