I realized just now, that I spelled role wrong. I wanted to capture the brief moment of silence in the class, as the teacher calls role. My recorded was in my bag, so i knew that when i recorded it, the sound would be muffled. But im pleased that i was still able to capture the dragging on of role call, and the monotone of the instructors voice. 

Roll

I chose this site because I was next to the tennis courts in the morning, and wanted to capture a practice moment of fatigue, and maybe possibly error. To record, I laid the camera on the ground next to the fence when I walked in, and was actually pretty pleased with the playback. I caught them on a pretty interactive time of practice, and there was a lot of action happening. 

Practice

The motive of this recording was similar to the previous. A library  is suppose to be silent, and while recording, I walked in the doors past people laughing, then to a silent section of the library. I was pretty amazed at the playback, it is a lot louder than I had expected.

Library

This site was chosen because i often bike to school. Which is also another peaceful moment of every day that I often look forward to. It's kind of nice to just enjoy the nature around me and to not have to much time to interact with other people. Which has its pros and cons. While recording, I also didn't realize how loud the environment around me was. And on playback, there was a lot of noise along with noise from my bike, which apparently I am immune to- it's pretty noisy!

Journey To School

My motive of recording this was to pick up interactions that occur in a hallway, with students crowded around waiting for classes to begin. While I was recording, I got really excited because as soon as I pressed record a lot of simultaneous enthusiastic interactions happened right next to me, however when I listened to the playback, those engagements were really muffled and hard to make out. But you are still given a sense of a public space, which was the original goal. 

Hallway

This track is the correct, planned version of "Doorbell Laugh". While i was recording, I tried to keep our original script to plan. But during playback- i noticed some things I wasn't expecting. There was some noise, and some awkwardness. 

Doorbell

This track is a blooper. I was trying to produce a recording. We set up a plan that engaged the audience with the sound of the opening door, and foot steps. While recording, we clearly began to laugh. I noticed being on a recorder is kind of a vulnerable, exposed moment. It also feels like there is a lot of pressure on you, so I got nervous and started to laugh. In the playback, I enjoyed it a lot, more so because it wasn't planned.

Doorbell Laugh

I chose this sound because I've always received a sense of anticipation when a phone rings. I took advantage of this, "anticipation" and manipulated the rhythm of the rings. Interesting to receive a story line and anticipation just from a series of rings. While recording, it was fun manipulating the recording with my roommate who was helping. and in regards to the play back- as I mentioned it was interesting to hear the playback, and think of a story within the recording. Like, who was calling, and why was the phone call being rejected.

Declined Call

I chose this site because i noticed when I was walking around the café, there were a variety of sounds. While I was recording, i noticed a woman standing next to me, on the phone in an intense conversation on the phone in spanish. I was looking forward to that in the recording but in the playback, it is very faint.

Cafe Talk

This site was chosen because I wanted to pick up silent sounds to us, and enunciate the sounds of a cat. When I played the recording back, i noticed that Benjamin was purring, but it is very faint. Those sounds where not noticed when I was recording him.

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