Category Archives: Field Recording

Field Recording #10
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Identify the location of the clip – Sitting on the pew outside of the Studio

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – This recording was taken as I sat on the pew folding a paper airplane. I was sitting outside the studio on the phone fiddling with some papers and started to fold it into a paper airplane. I thought the noise was cool so I did my field recording of this very noise. What you hear in the clip is a lot of paper constantly being crinkled and held down onto the hallow wood of the pew. Occasionally you can hear as I crease the paper and and then move it to make the next fold. The actual act of creasing the page is very clean and crisp when listened to in comparison to the ambient noise of my paper moving over the paper. Occasionally you can also hear as my finger squeaks on the paper as I crease each fold. 

Field Recording 9
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Republic Hall, hallway
My friend was describing the food  at a German restaurant that she went to the day before. I enjoyed the way she emphasized certain words or syllables in order to convey what the food was like. Her voice is naturally smooth but the jolts in her speech make her enthusiasm evident. Unfortunately, I cut the clip off right before she finished her sentence.

 

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Location: 13th Floor Lounge of Enterprise Dormitory Hall — April 11th, 2013, 10:15 pm

Sounds Heard:  This is a longer clip than usual, but I wanted to record the entire warm-up.  My improv troupe is in tech week for a show, and we have late night rehearsals at which we first warm up by taking turns sharing a story while leading a group stretch.  I made the mistake of asking my troupe if I could record them beforehand, so they can at first be heard making jokes about it, while the troupe leader Will tries to rein in their focus.  We then take turns telling stories.  At various points (usually at the start of a new stretch), moaning and groaning can be heard when the story-telling troupe member attempts a particularly difficult stretch.  You can also hear from time to time (like during Annie’s cantaloupe story) the volume of the storyteller’s voice increasing as he or she moves to the floor and closer to my phone for a stretch.