Part A
Outdoors:
Where: On the grass near four winds drive.
When: 4:00pm
Sound Notes:
- a fly buzzing
- air vent from the underground parking garage
- kids making non-sense noises
- people walking
- a loud annoying bug
- kids playing and shouting back and forth
- the wind blowing past my ear and through the leaves in the trees
- the kids bouncing some sort of ball
- a crunchy leaf blowing across the nearby pavement
- the wind catching the pages of my notebook
- a crunchy leaf falling next to me
- a car drives by with some sort of squeaking noise suggesting it needs some sort of tune up
- I become aware of the vent again and then notice the leaves rustling in the bush beside it
- a kid on his bike squeaks by while he shouts non-sense 'whooping' noises
- some sort of loud heavy sounding creaking in the distance
- a car alarm goes off momentarily
- another squeaky car drives by while another squeaks its brakes nearby
- someone walks by on the grass and I hear their rustling footsteps
- birds continue to chirp from near and far
- a dog barks a few times
- more cars drive by
- some different birds start chirping
- the wind picks up again rustling both pages and leaves
- the alarm on my cell phone goes off telling me my 10mins is up
Reflection:
The loudest sound was the vent but I did eventually lose my awareness of it only to remember it was there again later. Many sounds were very faint and I had to listen hard past the nearby sounds; by concentrating on distant noises I began to lose my perception of the sounds nearby. I realized that there was always some sort of noise going on and there was never silence.
Indoors:
Where: Sitting in a classroom before class starts up.
When: 4:30pm
Sound Notes:
- people talking
- footsteps as people walk by
- the guy next to me starts talking to me and I tell him to stop
- he continues talking to annoy me which distracts me from the other sounds in the room
- pages turning
- someone whistling
- my own sniffling
- chairs squeaking and creaking as people roll them around the room
- air moving through the vents
- a mac error message
- coughing
- someone drinking from a water bottle - i can hear the plastic crinkle and the water slosh
- footsteps as someone walks by
- the hiss of someone opening a pop bottle
- someone humming some unknown tune
- more footsteps
- more chairs rolling
- people are still talking and I hear someone say my name
- more footsteps
- I continue to sniffle
- more talking and mumbling with the occasional laugh
- something is set down on a table nearby
- a book gets moved on the tabletop
- I can hear people's conversations
- someone taps a keyboard with a pencil then proceeds to type
- fingers tapping
- more coughing
- more laughing
- my alarm going off to tell me the 10mins have passed
Reflection:
I was very aware that the sound of the air conditioning created a background 'indoor' sound. Even after the exercise when the class started and people stopped talking, I still noticed that there were always little sounds of movement and the noise never really stopped.
Part C
Sounds that may evoke an image are the sound of birds chirping and the sound of running water.
Images that provoke a sound can be a person screaming or breaking glass
Sounds that provoke a feeling are music (of any kind) and the sound of emotion (like someone crying, laughing, etc)
Sounds that provoke a thought are unidentifiable sounds (because you wonder what it was) and sirens (because you wonder what happened).
Sounds that compete with an image may be the sound of a quaking duck with the picture of a cow or the sound of a woman with the image of a man.
Sounds that counter an image could be the sound of a thunderstorm with a picture of sunshine or a quiet sound with an image of a car crash.
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