As I have stated in my homepage, I would like to begin this journey by expressing my enthusiasm for this opportunity to learn and grow, and to do so in the context of such a supportive and vibrant musical community. Working with my colleagues in electronic music, I strongly believe, will give me more perspective for all of my future musical endeavors.
This journey began with several listening exercises that helped attune my ear to the myriad of ways an acoustic landscape informs our everyday experiences. With my colleagues, I experienced a sound walk around my college campus, during which I could reflect on the subjective experience of difference acoustic spaces–both natural and contrived. I later had the chance to devise my own soundwalk which I plan to share with my colleagues later today.
In preparation for using technology to modify sounds and produce music, I downloaded Tracktion7, a digital audio workstation, and after some struggle, I managed to upload a sound bank which had been recorded with the materials in the electronic music studio. I later listened to the following recordings: Westerkamp’s Kits Beach Soundwalk and Lucier’s I am sitting in a room. The Soundwalk demonstrates how small changes in the balance of different sounds can create the feeling of starkly different settings; I am sitting chronicles the accumulating affect of a certain acoustic space on an audio recording through compiled through several iterations. Whereas the Soundwalk presents the power of sound to distort our experience of space, I am sitting showcases the ability of physical spaces to change our experience of sound.
The Unquestioned Answer 