A9 | Kathryn
A8- Tuning in & Windplay
Katie Hunks
In Class Assignment: Analyzing Sound
Tuning In: An Experiment in Auditory Observation
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BLkASzTNNEHqV4R5LdtcuMADTXbYyuZR?usp=sharing
Windplay
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ABLrfIK47aNeSGHwCSalbtMT9dNOxdC4?usp=sharing
A8:Tuning in & Windplay | Vicky Cen
In class exercise
When I was standing at my backyard, I heard three types of sound: wind chime, neighbor talking, and noise in the atmosphere. I labelled their relationship as I am inside the cube. Then I recorded their frequency and duration in the diagram above.
Assignment 8
Tuning
I chose to use a more abstract drawing to visualize the sound experience for this assignment. I was standing outside of my house with my eyes closed. I hear and I imagine. This drawing is how I felt at that moment. I forgot about the physical world and I would imagine I am standing in the darkness. It was chilly outside. I heard dry leaves jumping on the ground. I heard a bus and a bird in far. There was a hammer or some smashes that was not loud but unpleasant. And these sounds were wrapped by a wave of noise in the atmosphere. I was in the center of a tornado. I felt insignificant and weak compared to that noise. I felt like I was standing on a wire. The noise seemed like holding me in balance on a wire, but it was actually pulling and pushing me in all directions.
Windplay
I made three pinwheels with three types of paper material: regular printing paper, flyer, tracing paper. They have different weights so I want to compare their movements in the wind.
It was not windy outside so I just blew them……
8 | Tuning In – Marissa
For this assignment I chose to tune-in to one common sound in my apartment and analyze it in the context of working from home. The sound I chose was typing, which I considered through a written reflection and visual interpretations at the scale of the paragraph and the single word.
What does working from home sound like? There are the background sounds out the window, and the appliances whirring in the kitchen. There are the neighbours vacuuming the hallway and the unintentional slamming of doors. The apartment is not quiet, but my focused attention to the screen sends these noises to the background. I block out every distraction and focus on my own presence and the screen in front of me.
I usually forget to listen to music while I work. I like the sound of marker on paper, and the auditory feedback of clicking a mouse. We are trained to rely on touch and sound to navigate the keyboard of a computer – reserving vision for the results at eye-level. For the first time ever, I am considering the sensorial harmony of the keyboard as a comfort, even an extension of the body, rather than simply a pragmatic tool.
At first it is unsettling to realize that I can not hear my body over the tapping of the keyboard, but then I remember that it is my body and mind producing this sound. Brain, fingers and computer come together in a complex dance of thought and muscle memory to conjure and record ideas, whose auditory representation may only ever exist in this sequence of keystrokes. I am subconsciously responding to these sounds as I work – alert to the subtle tonal variations in the slip of a finger or a rogue extra space. An almost-rhythm accompanies my thoughts as they solidify in the form of words. A startlingly long silence settles when the line of thought dissipates, prompting a small but short-lived surge of panic before the tapping continues.
A8 | Kathryn
A8_Wenting Yang
Study of Noise in Lougheed Highway.
Stand on the one of Burnaby Skytrain station located on the Lougheed highway. The traffic is complex, such as cars, trucks and Skytrain. However, in the morning, there are not many passengers and traffic around the Skytrain. The noticeable noise is from leaf blowers. The continuing noise made people want to leave the area as soon as possible. The traffic noise mostly is from the friction of tire and road. Some trucks may have noise from airhorns when drivers make a turn to notice other drivers. However, when drivers start the trucks, the exhaust stack on the front will have whistle noise. There is skateboarder passed me; the uneven concrete ground makes some cracking noise.
Study of Paper Windmill
I made a windmill by sketch paper. It did not move if I just placed it on the floor. It is because the sketch paper is too heavy for the breeze.
The video shows the wind direction. The windmill did not change the speed from the North and South direction, but the West and East direction has a big difference. The movement of windmill shows the wind is from West direction.
A8 | Tuning In | Doug Craig
A8: Tuning In & Windplay
Berend Kessler
