In order to cope with his breakup with Meredith, Andy uses sound to create multiple scenarios where he brutally murders her. His sound design begins as a joke and increasingly gets out of hand. I created the sounds for the latter death sequences by recording myself tearing apart of lettuce and cabbage. I also chewed tripe and other slimy noodles right up against a large-diaphragm condenser microphone. With some difficulty, I avoided breathing so that my breath would not be recorded.

Andy regains his position as sound technician and attempts to derail Meredith’s radio show by over-exaggerating the ruckus to reflect his heartbreak. To create this sound, we spent an afternoon scavenging for free or cheap pottery and glassware. We then organized a recording session late in the evening on a quiet rooftop outdoors, where we unapologetically dropped everything from a 6-foot-tall ladder and smashed what remained with a rubber mallet.

Misogynistic radio producer Gus harasses Meredith and Andy from outside the sound booth before cueing up for “Picking Up The Pieces”, a podcast whose name backhandedly alludes to Andy’s deteriorating romantic situation. Although Gus is standing plainly on stage, we filtered his voice to make it sound as if he were in a booth talking over an intercom. We created a foot switch for the actor that allowed him to trigger a clicking sound whenever he would speak over the intercom.