Sunday, March 15, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Response Questions
1. Were you able to find places and spaces where you could really listen?
Yes, but it was difficult to try to focus on a specific sound, and really isolate it.
2. Was it possible to move without making a sound?
Just barely.
3. What happened when you plugged your ears, and then unplugged them?
It was as if I was listening through a stethoscope, I could hear my body at work. Not too pretty.
4. What types of sounds were you able to hear?
See: Sound Log Notes Posting.
5. Were you able to differentiate between sounds that had a recognizable source and those sounds you could not place?
Usually the sounds I could not identify were the easiest to differentiate.
6. Were you able to differentiate human, mechanical, and natural sounds?
Yes, but the human and mechanical sounds blur together sometimes.
7. Were you able to detect subtleties, changes, or variations in the everpresent drone?
Not really, but practice makes perfect.
8. Extremely close sounds? Sounds coming from very far away? The sounds always seemed to be far away, even the ones that were close to my body. I felt an odd separation as a listener.
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 was able to do so, but I didn’t take the opportunity.
10. Do you feel you have a new understanding or appreciation of the sounds of our contemporary landscape/cityscape?
I certainly understand the concept of “noise pollution”, and that it is not necessarily a bad thing.
11. How do you think your soundwalk experience will affect your practice as a media artist, if at all?
It will make me take more care when I consider mise-en-scene possibilities.
Yes, but it was difficult to try to focus on a specific sound, and really isolate it.
2. Was it possible to move without making a sound?
Just barely.
3. What happened when you plugged your ears, and then unplugged them?
It was as if I was listening through a stethoscope, I could hear my body at work. Not too pretty.
4. What types of sounds were you able to hear?
See: Sound Log Notes Posting.
5. Were you able to differentiate between sounds that had a recognizable source and those sounds you could not place?
Usually the sounds I could not identify were the easiest to differentiate.
6. Were you able to differentiate human, mechanical, and natural sounds?
Yes, but the human and mechanical sounds blur together sometimes.
7. Were you able to detect subtleties, changes, or variations in the everpresent drone?
Not really, but practice makes perfect.
8. Extremely close sounds? Sounds coming from very far away? The sounds always seemed to be far away, even the ones that were close to my body. I felt an odd separation as a listener.
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 was able to do so, but I didn’t take the opportunity.
10. Do you feel you have a new understanding or appreciation of the sounds of our contemporary landscape/cityscape?
I certainly understand the concept of “noise pollution”, and that it is not necessarily a bad thing.
11. How do you think your soundwalk experience will affect your practice as a media artist, if at all?
It will make me take more care when I consider mise-en-scene possibilities.
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