Sensory Overload, Or Lost In Translation Final Copy

Taken behind Prospect. You can hear the roar of traffic from College St. in the background as well as some trees creaking, birds chirping, footsteps, and a dog bark.

Distant Traffic with Birds Chirping

The end of a seven minute recording of an electric tea kettle boiling, and two mugs being filled with hot water.

Tea Kettle Boiling

Stair traffic from the staircase to the basement right by my room

Stairs Outside My Dorm Room

I'm gonna use this clip, as well as other news clips, along with other sounds from my dorm room. This was recorded from ABC News on the TV in my dorm.

Background News Clip for Soundscape (Dorm Room during COVID)

Taken from my window in Pearson's at 11 pm.

Distant Bells Chime

This is my rough draft for the soundscape project. I thought the dorms sounded unusually quiet due to COVID (no music, loud voices) so I was inspired to make this focused on other sounds I hear from my room. I intended to add more, especially at the end, but I have clips of my tea kettle boiling, typing, a book turning pages, the news on my TV, the bells, and some background footsteps.

Dorm Room Soundscape Draft 1

Pearson's Hall Soundscape

This is the first draft of my project. I didn't have time to do a lot of fine tune editing, and I want to add a lot more effects. I'm also planning to add a transition to human voice at the end and maybe other sound effects throughout.

Sensory Overload, Or Lost In Translation

Here is the second draft of my project. I added some new effects and made several changes to the text reader part of the piece. My intention is to make the sound get more distorted as it goes on, loosing the specificity that it has in the beginning, same as the text is doing while it translates through other languages and loses meaning. I may play around with more effects even more before posting the final. Many of the sounds towards the end are quiet because I recorded them from my laptop rather than downloading the computer sound to give it a grainy quality. I am unable to get it to be any louder, so my plan is to leave some of that as background whispering that you can't quite make out, and to add some text to speech reader voices that will be louder and comprehensible into that part. I am also planning to add some human voices into the piece—whether just at the end, or throughout the piece, I haven't decided yet.

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