Learning Reflection 9/29

Three things I learned: 

I learned that I have even more options when it comes to making an audio recording with the theme of weather. I knew I had many before; however, I had not thought of putting words into my audio to describe weather and people's emotions.

Recording interviews with people about weather would be a great aspect for my video piece. I could just use the audio.

I also learned more about other people and their topics. A topic says a lot about a person, and it was interesting to hear what everyone had to say about their theme and why they chose it.

How I Will Begin. 9/29

I have already started recording sounds, such as rain from the gutter and thunder. I plan on going out as soon as possible to record winds. I want to record a nice day, also, because a nice day has laughter, voices, and other sounds such as birds outside.

Weather is very important. It controls what we decide to do in our day. Rainy, gray days can cause sadness and loss of energy. Snowstorms don't allow people to go outside. Nice, sunny days can cause a person to feel happy. I want to investigate the words that are associated with different types of weather and how they make people feel.

I plan on recording stories and people saying weather-related words and emotions. I want to record the sound of snow because it is a crisp, silent sound. I am hoping that I can film snowfall and the sounds associated with it for my video. 

I am thinking of doing weather related poetry with words integrated into the sounds of different types of weather phenomenon. 

Learning Reflection 9/24

I learned several vocabulary terms that will help in the layering and editing of my abstract sound piece. Tone is electrically generated. Pitch is the highness or the lowness of a sound. Rhythm is the repetition of a recognizable beat. 

Ambiguity is not something to shy away from in an abstract piece. Unlike the environmental soundscape piece, this new project does not need to have a definite location that can be described in detail.

It is important to try and focus on one side of the scale. This way, the abstract piece would not fall in the center in between rhythm and pitch/timbre/tone. 

Learning Reflection 9/16

Yesterday in class, I learned that ambient sounds are very important to an environmental soundscape piece. After looking through my collection of recordings, I discovered that they are the key elements that were missing. I plan to go out this weekend and record background sounds to make my piece a lot stronger.

I also learned how to use Sound Studio. Several shortcuts make the cutting and pasting very easy and quick. 

By pooling all of our sounds together, we can create a diverse sound library that we can select from. I really like this idea of community sounds, because others have different visions from me.