Daily Archives: April 17, 2013

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. 

Journal #11
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1- 4/17/13 – 7:15 P.M.  – Drama Lounge
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. – Furthest from me I hear the sounds for the last three or four sorority brothers that are still out playing catch with the football in the last few minutes of sunlight on the quad for the day. They are all standing in a square shape and facing each other diagonally across the quad. I could distinctly hear the noises of the soft leather smacking into their hands as they hurled the ball across the grass to each other. Every so often you could hear a deep shout of their voices at each other and then the thud and tumbling noise as the ball hit the ground if they missed the catch. 
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – Medium range from me I can hear the sound of the cast of Carrie belting their music from 110. They are constantly starting and stopping, repeating the same lines of music over and over until they master every note and tone of the music. Every time they ran the music it began with. “He does not know… I will be there tomorrow… all alone…” Every once in a while the noises that would come from their voices would suddenly spike in volume as an actor opened the door to the room and shut it again. 
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – Closest to me I can hear the sound of the three people in the lounge conversing and reviewing their monologues before they performed for the faculty. The nerves were running high but almost everyone rehearsing their lines was rehearsing to themselves in a soft whisper to themselves. 
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – Furthest and closest to me the sound is  soft while at a medium range the sound is almost overwhelming.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. – Springtime 
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try to figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact. – Football, singing, whisper of lines