First sound

• What we heard
  • Office background
  • Children Playing, Toys
  • Slow sad music to happy music
  • Jack talking
• Keynote sound: sounds of everyday life (i.e. office, orphanage)
• Signal sound: parts of conversations from the movie
• Slow music to happy music with high tempo and more vocal
• Sounds affect emotion helping to set up the mood of the movie
• Comedy because there were funny parts of conversations

Second sound:

• What we heard
  • Bees, people’s murmuring
• Mixture of all kinds of sounds with negative connotation. Foreground sound was quick sharp music.
• Horror

The article by Davis, Acoustic Cyberspace, seemed to me very confusing and uninformative. His style of writing and choice of vocabulary makes the context hard to understand. Most of his main points are backed by wordy examples and explanations. My Quote: “Through resonance in a physical system, a small activity or event can gain a great deal of energy; for example, if I belted out a pitch that resonated with the unique acoustic characteristics of this room, the energy of my voice would be amplified by the environment. That’s why some singers can shatter a glass with their voice: they hit the resonant frequency of the glass (which is a space and contains a space), making it vibrate to the point of shattering.” This is the most easy to understand example that Davis provides. He uses it to explain what resonance is.

Nordstrom’s introduction to the class is much easier to understand. She introduces this class with an interesting approach that makes the readers intrigued to the context. In this quote: ”
Beware matey, there is no parlay on this island if you don’t fulfill the course outcomes! As you will see below, I addressed Outcomes One and Two, which focus on context awareness and the use of evidence in the paper. In the paper I argue that the use of sound, and especially narration, is essential in portraying the mood and feeling the director intended. I demonstrated that I was aware of the viewer and provided thoughtful ideas about the importance of the voice-over in this clip” she stays in context while sticking to her theme making it interesting.

I did volunteering at a local hospital in my junior year in high school. My initial intention was to have some extracurricular activities for my college applications. The volunteering job itself was dull. Most of the time I did my work changing and refilling things in patients’ rooms. Other times I would help the front desk file, print, and copy. I figured out little things that would help me get things done quickly. Overall it was a positive experience for me from the gratitude of helping out others. Although I would like to be doing things that are most productive, I think that this experience helped me with my “service-learning” in this class because I learned how to get through things that at first might seem dull but later on find good out of it.

After reading my peer’s playlist, I was able to grasp a pretty good idea of the basics of who she is. The first half of her playlist consists of sounds that one would usually hear on a typical day. The second half of her playlist consists of sounds that represents who she is. From what I perceive she might be in love with a boy who might not be making her the happiest, so I suggest “U and ur hand” by Pink. I assume that she sometimes is troubled by things in life, based on some of the songs.