So on Thursady we played arpund with our sounds and made a sound moment. Or was it called a noise moment? I can't remember. Anyway, in my group we all had a seperate little play around with the sounds trying to come up with something. Mine was dumb, so we decided to use Sams as the base, with all of us pitching in and giving a sugestions on how to improve it. I wasn't really much help here, I could decide what sounded good together and what didn't.
On Friday all the groups played there songs? sounds? I have to admit I'm not a good listener. We were sitting in the dark but i still got distracted by my own thoughts. On one hand I thought it was quite cool, sitting in the dark listening to these sounds, it was different and gave you relaxing feelling. On the other hand I was a bit bored and couldn't keep my mind on the music.
Wednesday 20th July
Today we went to the Anechoic Chamber and the Reverberation Chambers. This was what the other half of the class did yesterday. First we had to walk up Wellesly St (D:) which sucked. Then we had a little lectrue by the guy who worked there. Which, in my opionion was quite boring. Some of it was interesting, like hearing how the arcustics worked in different places. And learning that lisening to something 85 dB for four hours would damage your hearing.
After the Lecture we went to see the chambers. The first one was the Reverberation Chamber . This chamber was used to see how materials worked to absorb or relfect noise. It had these thick as metal doors with fancy locks.
The Anechoic Chamber was buzzy. it reminded me of a music video, of the Windows Media Player visualizations. All along the ceilling, floor and walls wer foam wedges pointed outwards in squares. They had this springing metal fence that you syood on abouve the chambers real floor.
Both Chambers where seperate from the building they where in.
It was quite fun looking at these chambers. Both so completely different. One that reflected every soun back at you hundreds of times and one that was as quite as a grave.
After the Lecture we went to see the chambers. The first one was the Reverberation Chamber . This chamber was used to see how materials worked to absorb or relfect noise. It had these thick as metal doors with fancy locks.
The Anechoic Chamber was buzzy. it reminded me of a music video, of the Windows Media Player visualizations. All along the ceilling, floor and walls wer foam wedges pointed outwards in squares. They had this springing metal fence that you syood on abouve the chambers real floor.
Both Chambers where seperate from the building they where in.
It was quite fun looking at these chambers. Both so completely different. One that reflected every soun back at you hundreds of times and one that was as quite as a grave.
Tuesday 19th July
Our first project for the Second Semester has to do with sound. Or more correctly veiwing noises as music. We are doing this project differently to the last ones, as for this one each week we will be doing a mini project to do with noise.
On Tuesday the class was split in two and the half I was in went on a noise walk??? We were given a sheet of paper that had a table on it. One box was to put the name of the noise you herd. Then beside that were boxes where you wrote initials that ment whether is was melodic or not, natural of not etc.
I was really dreading doing this when I realised this was what I was going to do but it wasn't that bad. I was afraid it would be borring but most of the time you were just listening to the sounds around you and trying to identifty whether they had melody or rythem. These were the two that stumped me the most, mostly because I wasn't totally sure what they ment. Melody more than rythem.
The guy who took it (whos name I cannot remember. Gah!) was friendly and nice. it wasn't fun exactly, but it was interesting.
On Tuesday the class was split in two and the half I was in went on a noise walk??? We were given a sheet of paper that had a table on it. One box was to put the name of the noise you herd. Then beside that were boxes where you wrote initials that ment whether is was melodic or not, natural of not etc.
I was really dreading doing this when I realised this was what I was going to do but it wasn't that bad. I was afraid it would be borring but most of the time you were just listening to the sounds around you and trying to identifty whether they had melody or rythem. These were the two that stumped me the most, mostly because I wasn't totally sure what they ment. Melody more than rythem.
The guy who took it (whos name I cannot remember. Gah!) was friendly and nice. it wasn't fun exactly, but it was interesting.
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