Environmental sound installation at EMPAC, RPI, Troy. The Isle Is Full of Noises is an environmental sound installation composed by Michael Century, RPI professor of new media and music, with the assistance of Eric Miller, Ph.D. student in electronic arts. Century’s installation employs Wave Field Synthesis speaker arrays to spatialize an 8-channel sound composition. “The Isle Is Full of Noises,” is taken from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. The characters of Caliban and Miranda are foregrounded against the auditory backdrop of an imaginary tropical island. Visitors will hear poetic text, phonemic particles of language, birds, animals, and occasional snippets of melody. “Caliban can be taken as the figure of the indigenous people of the ‘New World,’ a slave to an imperious foreigner with magical powers Caliban’s speech, which begins, ‘Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,’ articulates with great beauty the abundance of sonic life on the island.