Sunday, March 9, 2008

SOUNDS!!!!

1.What is your earliest memory of sound? How do you feel about it now?
ummm living in my house in sw calgary, I dont really remeber much

2. When do you notice your breath?
when i am running or singing

3. What is attention?
being able to be aware of your surroundings or tasks

4. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece based on breath rhythms?
maybe

5. What sound reminds you of home?
Laughter, music

6. Do you listen for sound in your dreams? What do you hear? How does it
affect you?
not really i dont remeber

7. The distinguished historian, Wiliam H. McNeil, has recently argued in his
book Keeping Together in Time that "coordinated rhythmical activity is
fundamental to life in society."
Can you imagine tracking a rhythm pattern in your daily life and writing about
it?
perhaps depending on how much i feel it works

8. Can you imagine rhythm pattern for the rhythm circle with your own form of
notation?
yes

9. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece for voices using attention
patterns?
???
10. What is sound?
vibrations that move air through atmosphere which we then hear

11. What is listening?
when you consentrate on certain sounds

12. What action(s) is usually synchronized with sound?
movement, dancing...

13. When do you feel sound in your body?
with any low bass/ frequency sounds

14. What sound fascinates you?
Robot/voice modifaction

15. What is a soundscape
?
various sounds from different locations

16. What are you hearing right now? How is it changing?
my friends and family chating away, dinner cooking, talking about MJ.

17. How many sounds can you hear all at once?
as many as the brain can handle .......?

18. How far can you hear sounds?
depends on the amplitude of the sound wave.

19. Are you sure that you are hearing every thing that is to hear?
yes.

20. What more could you hear if you had bigger ears? (or smaller)
ummmm not much because the ear drums translate sound from vibrations in the air.

21. Can you hear more sounds if you are quiet? How many more?
yes, 00
22. How long can you listen?
you focus your attention on a suject

23. When are you not listening?
when people complain.

24. Can you not listen when something is sounding?
WHAT!?

25. Try not listen to anything. What happens?
doesnt work, its impossible unless you deaf.



26. How can you not listen if your ears never close?
by not paying attention or ignoring sounds.

27. What meaning does any sound have for you?
depends on the context of the sounds and where it comes from.

28. What is favourite sound? How is it made? When can you hear it? Are you
hearing it now?
...


29. What is the soundscape of the space you are now occupying?
the house.

30. How is the soundscape shaped? or what makes a soundscape?
likea house.

31. What is the soundscape of your neighborhood?
birds making noise, cars going by.

32. What is the soundscape of your city?
same ing bigger scale.

33. How many different soundscapes can you imagine?
as many as i can.
34. What would you like to have in your own soundscape?
funny sounds.

35. What would you record to represent your soundscape?
music, cars, laughter.

36. What sound makes you speculative?


37. What sounds gives you chills?
nails on a board.

38. What sound ruffles your scalp?
low bass.
39. What sound changes your breathing?
more low bass.

40. What sound would you like whispered in your ear?
my gf's voice

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