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Soundwalk
Soundwalk Map
Above is the map of my soundwalk. Boxes are buildings, spirals are stairwells. PG is the Parking Garage, and the section after the break is the Union.
Sound Map
This is my 'sound map' of the parking garage. Behing me to my right there was a noisy vent, behind me to the left was the rest of the class rustling papers, and far off too my front left were various sounds of someone getting in their car and driving off.
Sounds
chairs on floor, rustling coats
squeeky door
people on stairs walking
low quiet rumble
bus outside window, muffled diesel engine
echoey talking in stairwell
old-timey radiator humming
someon walking through a squeeky door downstairs
creeky elevator
wind around mitchell-curtan bridge
rumbly elevator
windows PC shutting down
bitchy girl on phone
peck outside vent
lady with accent, older
echoey parking garage stairs
parking garage vent hum/whine
someone's keys
gold cart driving by
lots of folks talking echoey under library
library ventilation
stepped in crunchy ice
bus a block away, then passes by
something bumping a dumpster
rattly/purry car backing up
bolton vent
lots of talking in Union, susserous, echoey
me sniffling
distant phone ringing
union elevator
squeeky doors in union
girls laughing
commuter services teller, female
pepsi machine hum
drinking fountain
faint music, then louder
billiard balls colliding
thud-rumble-crash of bowling
2 guys talking
clicking pen
me writing, raspy
classmates making silly sounds
bathroom hand dryer
Questions
1. Were you able to find places and spaces where you could really listen?
Yup
2. Was it possible to move without making a sound?
Nope, could move quietly but there was always little noises
3. What happened when you plugged your ears, and then unplugged them?
Things sounded a tad quieter and less clearly, but not by much.
4. What types of sounds were you able to hear? List them.
See above.
5. Were you able to differentiate between sounds that had a recognizable source and those sounds you could not place?
Ya some of the sounds i had no clue where they came from.
6. Were you able to differentiate human, mechanical, and natural sounds?
Yup
7. Were you able to detect subtleties, changes, or variations in the
everpresent drone?
Yea some places it was more obvious what it was from, and other times it was just a mystery hum, and it was higher or lower pitched in different places
8. Extremely close sounds? Sounds coming from very far away?
Close were a lot more noticable and more obvious in their source
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.?
Yea i stepped in some crunchy snow
10. Do you feel you have a new understanding or appreciation of the sounds of our contemporary landscape/cityscape?
Yep
11. How do you think your soundwalk experience will affect your practice as a media artist, if at all?
I know i can go just about anywhere to record good audio effects
Above is the map of my soundwalk. Boxes are buildings, spirals are stairwells. PG is the Parking Garage, and the section after the break is the Union.
Sound Map
This is my 'sound map' of the parking garage. Behing me to my right there was a noisy vent, behind me to the left was the rest of the class rustling papers, and far off too my front left were various sounds of someone getting in their car and driving off.
Sounds
chairs on floor, rustling coats
squeeky door
people on stairs walking
low quiet rumble
bus outside window, muffled diesel engine
echoey talking in stairwell
old-timey radiator humming
someon walking through a squeeky door downstairs
creeky elevator
wind around mitchell-curtan bridge
rumbly elevator
windows PC shutting down
bitchy girl on phone
peck outside vent
lady with accent, older
echoey parking garage stairs
parking garage vent hum/whine
someone's keys
gold cart driving by
lots of folks talking echoey under library
library ventilation
stepped in crunchy ice
bus a block away, then passes by
something bumping a dumpster
rattly/purry car backing up
bolton vent
lots of talking in Union, susserous, echoey
me sniffling
distant phone ringing
union elevator
squeeky doors in union
girls laughing
commuter services teller, female
pepsi machine hum
drinking fountain
faint music, then louder
billiard balls colliding
thud-rumble-crash of bowling
2 guys talking
clicking pen
me writing, raspy
classmates making silly sounds
bathroom hand dryer
Questions
1. Were you able to find places and spaces where you could really listen?
Yup
2. Was it possible to move without making a sound?
Nope, could move quietly but there was always little noises
3. What happened when you plugged your ears, and then unplugged them?
Things sounded a tad quieter and less clearly, but not by much.
4. What types of sounds were you able to hear? List them.
See above.
5. Were you able to differentiate between sounds that had a recognizable source and those sounds you could not place?
Ya some of the sounds i had no clue where they came from.
6. Were you able to differentiate human, mechanical, and natural sounds?
Yup
7. Were you able to detect subtleties, changes, or variations in the
everpresent drone?
Yea some places it was more obvious what it was from, and other times it was just a mystery hum, and it was higher or lower pitched in different places
8. Extremely close sounds? Sounds coming from very far away?
Close were a lot more noticable and more obvious in their source
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.?
Yea i stepped in some crunchy snow
10. Do you feel you have a new understanding or appreciation of the sounds of our contemporary landscape/cityscape?
Yep
11. How do you think your soundwalk experience will affect your practice as a media artist, if at all?
I know i can go just about anywhere to record good audio effects
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