Analysis & Reflection – Week 1 Blog Questions & Responses:Q5

Question 5 : Listen to the audio you recorded in Tute #1. Here. Write a paragraph or two about your recording from a technical and/or “poetic” perspective.

Consider: What these sounds evoke for you. What associations they have. Do any of your recordings suggest images? What might they be? Do any of your recordings suggest the possibility of other recordings?

It was really surprising listening to our recorded sounds because the microphone picked up unexpected ambiance and I find it really interesting. We mainly recorded our piece outdoor, which was noisy because there was music and crowds outside. Distance was our relevance, since as we see the noisy atmosphere outside of building 9, we slowly move away from the noise and tried to find a quite place, which the audio quality was improved, clearly.  We recorded audio from the basketball court, from a long distance but it still pick up every details , the bouncing sound, the sound of the ball touching the rim, the wind, everything. We also tried to record the sound of fingers touching a smart phone . Normally with our ears we couldn’t hear anything from our touch but with the recorder we could hear probably the difference of the audio level in every touches, and also the ambiance sound inside the room.

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