Hi, I am Ben and this is my first real blog post on this site. Most if not all posts here will be related to the Electro-Acoustic Music class.
This weekend, I was assigned to work with a partner to collect various sounds. I worked with Julia and we walked around campus collecting sounds of different lengths, timbres, and in different acoustic spaces. We spent a good amount of time following some crows outside in attempt to capture their “caws”. We ended up with some pretty clear recordings of the crows’ voices. We also captured droning, ambient sounds from various sources including heaters in different rooms, vents, and a running laundry machine. We also produced some shorter sounds ourselves, rather than recording only passive noises. For example, we recorded the sound of dropping a tennis ball, opening a door, and tapping on a handrail.
I also listened to the assigned pieces this weekend, which were I Am Sitting in a Room (1969) by Alvin Lucier and Kits Beach Soundwalk (1996) by Hildegard Westerkamp, but I will write more on those in the next blog post for Thursday.
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