First Soundwalk-Reflection

2009-02-15T22:12:00.000-08:00

1. Were you able to find places and spaces where you could really listen? 
--I think just about anywhere you were to go you could really listen, it is something that you would just have to calm down, and pay attention.

  2. Was it possible to move without making a sound? 
--No, not really, there is always going to be a rustle of clothing, or scuffing the floor or disturbing something.   

3. What happened when you plugged your ears, and then unplugged them? 
--The difference was strictly extroverted and introverted. Unplugged is allowing you to hear what is around you and hearing what is going around on the world or hearing what is strictly going on within your own body.   

4. What types of sounds were you able to hear? List them. 
--See the list that I have labeled inside this same post.  

5. Were you able to differentiate between sounds that had a recognizable source and those sounds you could not place? 
--I personally had no problem with those kinds of sounds. Most of them were quite ordinary whether it be keys, backpacks or high heals. The only ones that ever promoted anything in the way of a problem were the common sounds of say something like a timer, I still would know that it was a timer alarm, I just wouldn’t know what the alarm was for.
  
6. Were you able to differentiate human, mechanical, and natural sounds? 
--Yes I was. That would primarily have to do with my being exposed to such a variety of sounds while growing up. But than again, if you want to get slight philisophical about everything, aren’t they all natural sounds. Whether it be the natural sound of walking or the sound that a piano naturally makes as it rings, just as leaves rustle in the wind.

  7. Were you able to detect subtleties, changes, or variations in the ever present drone? 
==I guess it was moreso a difference in the swell and cadences of the surrounding. Much like you can just sit and listen to everything around you, you can tell that there is a temp and it rises and falls with tension.

   8. Extremely close sounds? Sounds coming from very far away? 
--Extremely close sounds seemed to have less of a fluctuating cadence to the rest of drone around. The distant sounds were the ones that pulsated more rhythmically, the close sounds just seem to add a over dubbed percussion section.   

9. Were you able to intervene in the urban landscape and create your own sounds by knocking on a resonant piece of metal, activating wind chimes, etc.? 
--I think that my knocking on the walls or creating my own sounds would never really intervene with the urban landscape, no matter what sound that I make, I wouldn’t be intervening, things would still go along as normal. But I guess I can just change things up for the moment.  

10. Do you feel you have a new understanding or appreciation of the sounds of our contemporary landscape/cityscape?  I would like to assume that I have a new appreciation for the feeling and movement for these things.  11. How do you think your soundwalk experience will affect your practice as a media artist, if at all? 
--I feel that it will not so much force me, but remind me that I need to include it into anything that I need to create. Use it as a kind of foreplay between the scene, characters and dialogue.

The art of the visual representation of sound

2009-02-15T19:44:00.000-08:00

This scan of the paper that demonstrates the individuality of creation with an individual, mostly due to the individual penmanship of every person.

List of Sounds

After spending the time inside the UW-Milwaukee Union lobby where i was simply able to just spend time in my own lonesome in a crowd was able to visualize the sounds that i heard as society passed me by.

Sound Body Map

Here is the map of the route that i and the group and i traversed as we listed the sounds where we both listed our sounds and ended up creating our sound body maps.

Film 116 Drift Atlas

First Soundwalk-Reflection

The art of the visual representation of sound