I've enjoyed thinking about the ways that beeps and "technological" sounds can pollute our environment without us realizing it. I decided to stress the sound of scrolling since it's a sound we don't dwell on (if we don't have to) that when extended, can easily leave us frustrated, listless, irritated, aggravated, annoyed; far from neutral.

Sound Journal: Scroll

I heard this sound while walking through Atkinson building. It went on without anyone trying to stop this mysteriously-started alarm noise. It reminded me of the sound we hear that comes from not being able to properly process sound after an event like a roaring concert.

Sound Journal: When You Stop Hearing Something Blaring

Project 2: A

Project 2: B

I wanted to explore the environment of exclusive sound. I haven't listened to this since the time these sounds were being produced, and I never plan on listening to it again. This is solely for the audience to hear. 

I wonder what sound exclusivity like this could lead to and how artists can express things through "secret sounds".

Sound Journal: Secret Sound

This is my take on "silence", found within my daily life. This is the sound of my bedroom early in the morning after my boyfriend has left and my housemates haven't woken up yet. My computer fan is running and the house is creaking, but other than that I believe it represents silence relatively well.

Personal Silence

Foreword: The sound quality is terribly choppy, I know. But I like it. Also, it's a bit on the creepy side, and that's intentional.

I own a pet snake. She's very harmless and very sweet, but because she had some difficulties eating at first I had to switch her to live prey. I started to sympathise with the rat - each one was just not going to have a good day when I picked them up from the store. I realised that each trip, each "express vehicle" I took, was a vastly different experience for me compared to the rat. This is a track addressed to it, the rat, from me in the role of "reaper". I'm guiding its soul to its fate.

Express Vehicle (I Am the Reaper)

I don't know how this track came about, I just know that my phone was lost and when I found it it was recording. You can hear me at the beginning, then again at the end realizing my phone had been missing and recording the entire time. When I checked my phone, it showed it was recording for only 3 minutes, but the track played for nearly 18. This is those 18 minutes.

Dani De Angelis