So today we pretty much continued with our
eight strips of film that we did last Thursday, and just cut and spliced them
together with each other to make a complete 9 minute long abstract film. The
last thing that happened was Dr. Silva talking to us about the sound recording assignment,
and that we would be put in to groups to record all kinds of different random sounds
around the campus. More specifically, we had to record what went along with the
title of our group’s sound description. For example, I got “Salty” so my first
thought would be to use a regular household salt shaker, and possibly the sound
of sand and the waves of the beach to give off the impression of salt water,
but then again that would have a bit too much to accomplish, so I just went the
salt shaker alone.
In the article about acoustic ecology, the passage
that talks about listening with our ears, the first paragraph says that if one
should stop for a minute or two, and just listen to the sounds around them,
they hear not only the sounds of their everyday surroundings, but the sounds of
the world in general. I think this is but a taste of what the real definition
of listening is all about. Also, it’s kind of sad to hear that we as humans,
and as a modern technological society, that we have to rely on our high tech to
exercise our defense sources while at the same time endanger the livelihoods of
animals, in particular whales who could very well die from our supersonic sound
wave testings.
The Chion reading about different modes of listening
kind of speaks the same as the acoustic article. Listening is taken for granted,
especially in these times. When someone says, “Listen”, people usually think
about listening to what people are saying to them or listening to music, but
sometimes people should listen with their ears in general and just close their
eyes and just try to imagine what it is they’re listening to and then they can definitely
know for sure that sound is a very important, and artistic thing in life and
should be not be granted by anyone.
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