This piece comprises of sounds of a bat, a tiger, and a beetle, as well as sounds of the sun.  Various pieces of the sun sounds were slowed down and lowered in pitch for most of the piece.  The tiger's utterance was repeated, lowered in pitch, and made progressively slower as it continues, adding a somewhat rhythmic component.  The bat's cry was repeated, split into stereo, then slightly delayed and tremelo'd, creating a stereophonic panning effect.  The beetle sound repeats periodically until halfway thru the piece, at which point it is echoed into a blanket-like texture of clicks.  In the last few seconds of the piece, most of the sounds drop out, leaving just the drones from the sun, returned to normal pitch/speed.  A bat then makes one last cry to end the piece, and the other creatures in the recording environment are audible as the piece closes with a percussive snap.

Sun + Animals (Project 1)

This is a recording made the night of February 14, 2015.  Given the option to consider our assignments to be "a sound," "some sound," or "some sounds" I choose to consider this "some sound."  My reasoning behind that choice is that what is heard in this piece is not precisely identifiable, although there are aural clues that suggest it involves a woman singing.  None of the sound in this recording is clear enough to warrant its own sure identification. This makes it somewhat difficult to conceive of as "some sounds," a term that was suggested by students in class to mean a collection of independent sound phenomena originating from clearly different objects or actions.  What you are in fact listening to is a recording of a telephone communication from Smalls Jazz Club in NYC while a show is taking place, on speakerphone.  It has not been edited in any way except for length (what is uploaded is an excerpt from the whole recording). Once that information is ascertained, it is reasonable to think of this as "a sound" (the sound of a telephone transmitting ambient noise from a jazz performance in NYC), or "some sounds" (the collected sounds of a jazz band, audience noise, telephone static, etc.), but I still think "some sound" is most appropriate (a dissociated sonic picture of a vocalist littered with white noise and telephonic-sounding artifacts).

Vincent Rado