The track is a mix of 6 NAT sounds recorded in the arts and music building, otherwise known as PVA at the American University in Cairo.
1. The sound of the elevator as we go to the first floor where all the classrooms are.
2. A worker walking in the hall and jiggling his keys that are attached to his belt.
3. PVA students playing around with drumsticks and snapping their fingers.
4. An ongoing music class we recorded from the hallway.
5. A professor listening to music as he types his email.
6. The tea kettle boiling water, finishing, and being poured by a worker.

Recorded with a Sennheiser 416P Shotgun Microphone.

NAT Sound at the American University in Cairo's Arts Building

The Center for the Arts in the American University In Cairo (AUC) is no regular building, anyone who goes in can tell you that.

Narrators: Mariam Ismail and Ahmed Zada

NAT Sounds recorded with Sennheiser 416P Shotgun Microphone

Transcript:

Ahmed Zada: Walking into the arts and music building in the AUC center for arts, known as PVA, the first thing I notice is that it’s much quieter than the rest of the university. Most students were still in class at eleven thirty in the morning. 
 
Fade in NAT SOUND: NAT sound of the wind blowing and birds chirping in the in the arts building. (30 seconds)
 
Mariam Ismail: On the right, I find an elevator with doors that have a photograph of a woman with a red flower in her hair, a rose. She has the eyes of an artist, committing her subject to memory to paint later. 

Fade in NAT SOUND: pressing the elevator button, it arriving, and opening its doors(9 seconds), then fade out


Mariam Ismail: I gaze back and press the button to the first floor.

 Ahmed Zada: I continue to walk down the white-walled hallway until I find a large brown door that seems heavier than the rest of the campus doors: soundproof. 
The moment I step inside, my ears immediately hear the sound of music.
 
Fade in NAT SOUND: oriental orchestra music in a classroom (18 seconds)
 
Mariam Ismail: I peek inside the window of the classroom to see an orchestra assembly with a professor conducting.The music is quite oriental, I can hear the drums and the Oud.

Fade in NAT SOUND: guitar (36 seconds)
 
Ahmed Zada: A few steps afterwards is a male student in a music room playing a beige guitar, holding it gently in his lap and tapping his foot in time with the music, he seems to be concentrating on nothing else. 
 
	Continuation of NAT SOUND: guitar (36 seconds), then fade out

Mariam Ismail: Leaving PVA, You feel like the sound of music follows you back out, the art pieces hung around the walls, shimmering in the light, are etched onto the back of your eyelids, it’s a place where the artist in you comes alive, a place for you to discover and dream.

Becoming One With The AUC Center For the Arts (PVA)

On this week’s edition of The Rundown, we began with discussing the Mobile Giants, Vodafone and Nokia, launching 4G network on the moon in 2018, leading to the possibility of astronauts sending HD live videos and instant pictures.

Next up was a discussion about Arizona-based Alcor Company, who offers cryonic preservation to its clients for a chance of immortality. Clients are frozen with the hope that technology will, one day, be able to revive them.

Last, we talked about the U.S Department of Justice filing a case against Microsoft for refusing to release the data of its clients overseas, which has been recently taken into the U.S Supreme Court. We also talk about the issue of privacy vs. state security.

Our second segment, the interview segment, featured Dr. Wafik Lotfallah. He sope to us about the relationship between music and mathematics. 

On our last segment; “Another View,” we interviewed Khayyam Saleem, a Stevens Institute for Technology student, about his work with the National Science Foundation.

Links:

4G network on the moon: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-43211192/moon-to-get-4g-mobile-network

Cryonic preservation by Alcor:  https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/26/meet-the-company-offering-a-chance-at-immortality-for-200000.html

Microsoft’s case: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-microsoft/microsoft-clashes-with-justice-department-at-u-s-supreme-court-idUSL2N1QG1K0

 

Credits:
Music: Sleepless Nights by Anitek
PSA: The AD Council
Host: Mariam Ismail
Producer #1: @nourelbastaweesy

Producer #2: @nadamohamed


Click on the link to find our transcript:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIKnY3DU8QQskJaAZUipQLiSfd-IDS_26iY3hkU3RLQ/edit?usp=sharing

The Rundown, Group 10:: Science and Technology, Episode 4

A brief visualization of my life as a student, comprised of NAT sound and audio. 
Produced and recorded by: Mariam Ismail

Link to Script:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gaESLcTh3feyI4F8GmvGDzqREbEeVCPdVSjB5mG7od0/edit?usp=sharing

Dodging The Workload: An AUC Student's Audio Diary

This audio feature contains an interview with the author, Reem Bassiouney, who tackles taboo topics in Egypt through her award-winning books; The Pistachio Seller and Professor Hanaa.

Sound Effects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUp5yjlaUqA

Interviewee:
Reem Bassiouney, professor in The Department of Applied Linguistics, American University in Cairo

Photo Credits:
aucpress.com

Script:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-LWI69s4kIhnp4fkxWYxU9L6xNz22AgHd4UvQ_2Fgq4/edit?usp=sharing

Addressing Taboos In Writing: Reem Bassiouney

Mariam Naghi chose to get a tattoo of a bird that symbolizes her freedom after getting out of an emotionally abusive relationship with a man.
"No one has any control over me, not one person, not my parents, not society, no one."

Host: Mariam Ismail
Recorded with a Zoom H5

Flying towards freedom: Mariam Naghi

This audio feature contains an interview with the author, Reem Bassiouney, who tackles taboo topics in Egypt through her award-winning books; The Pistachio Seller and Professor Hanaa.

Interviewee:
Reem Bassiouney, professor in The Department of Applied Linguistics, American University in Cairo

Music:
The Circle of Life
AG Music
melodyloops.com

Photo Credits:
aucpress.com

Script:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w7EeAS1jiZVJmhPt1EzQsrKdecLBhaqiUCNlNwbAbpQ/edit?usp=sharing

Women in the Arab world live in a patriarchal society and many try to break free of its hold. This audio documentary sheds light on a creative expression of resistance some girls have taken to utilizing: tattoos. Marwa and Mariam translated their independence into the form of a tattoo and Professor Lisa shows how the symbolism behind these tattoos are similar to motifs Ancient Egyptian women had behind their tattoos 5,000 years ago.

Length without credits: 6 minutes and 48 seconds
Length with credits: 7 minutes and 21 seconds

Photo Credits: 
Marwa's tattoo, the jambia. 
Taken by Mariam Ismail. 

Link to script:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRwhzd8fT6gA5Tm3URk1dt79LAW7vjf-3uKt9SS6iSw/edit?usp=sharing

Link to The American University In Egypt's Digital Archive:
http://dar.aucegypt.edu/handle/10526/5362