My Soundscape (4/14)

Hello again, and happy Tuesday. This morning, I stood outside of my house for several minutes at dawn to record the sounds of the natural world waking up with remarkably little noise pollution to interrupt. I have attached my sound file, along with an image of my very Minnesota-looking backyard to garner your sympathy.

Please note: If the embedded playback doesn’t work on your computer, you can follow this URL (https://drive.google.com/file/d/17nU4goiVZZFdRS7l6Z4HJs0JpkMXGdtn/view?usp=sharing) to listen to my soundscape.

In other news, I have recently begun working on my second semester final project, my plan for which was discussed in my last video update. Specifically, I have begun to record water sounds on my phone, and I’m starting to troubleshoot how to actually map the water sounds to the sound of the human voice. It may appear to be a simple project, but getting those nuances just right and in a convincing way is going to take a lot of planning and organization. I’m definitely glad P.J. made us make a score in advance. In fact, the next logical step for me may be to create another more detailed score mapping the inflections and rhythmic elements throughout the prayer.

I hope you are all doing well (and maybe enjoying better weather than I am).