At first when reading the text I was in a loud room of girls and got very frustrated when trying to understand the piece. So I decided to into our sleeping porch and read. ( I also printed out the piece and wrote notes on it as I read). While reading this second time I found I understood the piece a lot better. Some of the notes I made include.

• visual space – sight and linear
• acoustic space – sound and nonlinear
• Sounds lead to imagry and sight does not really lead to anything
  • While sounds leads to thoughts, use of imagination etc. sight pretty much shows you anything you would need to imagine in otherwords does the work for you.
• While visuals have been monitored and controlled for a long time by government, parents etc.; sound and music are not as monitored and have more room to grow especially in the varying things on the internet.
• Particular sounds not can be asssociated with many different visuals again seeing something only dead ends the imagination process.
  • Ex. Hearing a song can make you picture many things- something personal, a particular occasion, or a visualization for the meaning/words. While seeing the music video of that same song would stop all of the individual thought processes.

Weird quote: (already in quotes) “Now we will be able to communicate acrossthe world, now we will be able to solve conflicts, now we will have better education , now we will have more democracy.”

                 Huh? First I don’t have a clue who is supposedly saying these things nor how it realtes to sound or sight…

Other quote (one I found I agreed with): …radio was quickly absorbed into commodity systems, and the state imposed its desire to organize the space of the spectrum, establishing the boundaries and rules that define the commercial radio that now dominates our ariwaves.

              Very true, originally the radio was not edited, monitored, subject to fines, nor restricted to particular materials. Like television and many other aspects of technology, sound has not yet been completely conquered but they sure are trying their hardest.

After looking over Megan’s portfolio again after receiving the prompt I feel more confortable about the class- requirements, expectations, goals, etc. I looked at her papers and structure of her portfolio; I feel that since Jentery felt it was a proper example, good enough to show other students, that it will be a good basis for how to conduct my pieces for the rest of the quarter. At first looking at it at the beginning of the year I didn’t really make too many connections with the papers I would be writing and the portfolio Megan made but now that we have more descriptions and actually the same prompts it was more help in preparing me for paper 1.2 and will continue to be helpful for the rest of the quarter.