Manipulating Sound

Firstly, our group brainstormed some ideas such as beaches, café’s, public transport however we believed these environments to be what other people would already be recording. Our group intended on making a twist to find a different environment that people are usually unaware of. Our group was not available to meet somewhere over the break due to how far away everyone lives. Therefore, we came up with an idea that would be convenient for everyone to draw sounds from, this is where the environment of noises around the house at night came about. Originally it was intended to be night time environment although we changed it to make it more specific by calling our environment, the sounds that occur around the house at night time.

To remain in contact our group created a page for the assignment on Facebook where everyone was able to post their ideas, sounds and comment on what they thought about each one. Sounds were easily accessible on the Facebook page all that needed to be done was saving the sound and uploading it on sound cloud.

The group decided that we would record these sounds over the break and present them on Wednesday to see how they all formulated together. The putting together of sounds was completed on Audacity where we needed to send our sounds via Facebook or email. Recordings on phones had to be sent to a laptop then saved and uploaded on to sound cloud. From there we had to find out how we would embed the sound cloud posts on to our blogs. This was discovered by simply searching on Google, for instructions of how to accomplish this. Google provided information that we were to click on share underneath the sound cloud upload, then copy the widget URL address and then simply paste it into the HTML section on our new post.

We had a minor challenge as someone’s sound was accidently forgotten, therefore I clarified it on our page on Facebook, to ensure everyone knew about the extra sound. This way of communicating really helps because we are able to make sure we all present the same material. It is hard to think how we could have accomplished this assignment back in the 1800s.  This would be extremely hard as back then we would need to be writing letters to each other and if a letter got lost then there would be no way of communicating. The advancement of technology has made living a lot easier, although has it made us lazy?

I am pleased with the result it sounds good and represents the sounds that occur during the night time that may not always be recognised. I believe that perhaps the pigeon could be removed only because I do not think that pigeons are awake at night; however in this case maybe it happened to be awake.

Overall, our group worked well together with the help of social media and everyone helped each other in areas of weakness. As a result, everyone improved their skills, with the help of the internet and each other. 

Partners: Samantha Layton, John Italia and Janet Bridgman