Critique Response: Project 2, Sound
This project forced the class to focus on an aspect of the senses that can go largely unrecognized in daily life, hearing. However sound strongly felt in the body wether we are consciously aware of it or not. Sound can create an environment from nothing and transport the listener to a place which is highly subjective but filled with endless possibility. You can create, with sound, a strong sense of anxiety, anticipation, or even boredom. Many of the pieces from the class used words spoken so softly or not in english that it became more about the sound the words make than the meaning of the words themselves. There were a lot of weird sounds that made me feel uncomfortable or feel tense. We usually only encounter sounds like that in regular life in small doses, instances where the sound only is describing what we are seeing. Taking the sound away from any other possible sensory faculty makes the listener infer the rest of the senses that may be present, it makes the listener fill in the gaps and allows the listener to visualize inside her/his own mind.
This assignment inspired me very much to record a lot of sound, I started to feel like I was hoarding. I was collecting sound that I had no idea what it was actually from, thinking I could possibly use it in the future. The collecting and cataloging of the sound clips was interesting because in some instances I had to guess what the sound was from. Sometimes certain sounds were very specific but a lot of times they were more ambiguous and could have been from several things. Other times, I thought I was recording something good and then I would listen to it and it would have turned out to sound like nothing.
I feel like sound is more intuitive and works more subconsciously similar to smell and therefore can have a more profound affect on the listener because they are not aware of how the effect has happened.
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