sound walk

Yonkers born and raised, I know it like the back of my hand. So I decided to take a walk around my neighborhood, leave the comfort of my bed for a while. Between the ambience of nature and the moving people and cars it was a great opportunity to take a sound walk. The smell of fresh air put me in a daze, I felt as if I was back home in St Martin. The sound of the wind blowing howling quickly woke me up from my fantasy. When i snapped back to reality I heard the screeching of tires braking from down the hill, I figured that car must have been going pretty fast to screech that loud. I heard squirrels fighting and when I looked up there they were, fighting over a nut on the branch above me. In the distance I could hear a woman on the phone having a conversation, she was hanging out the window. She seemed as if she was looking out for someone to arrive. I guess I picked a pretty good day to do a sound walk or maybe I was  just lucky. A police car pulled up to the building not to far from me with their sirens wailing, I didn't even turn to see what the issue is. The siren alone was an indication of a issue I wanted to know nothing about. As I walked down the hill I could hear the screeching breaks of the bus approaching the bus stop, I could only imagine the hustling and bustling of the people trying to get on the bus. I continued down the hill as I passed the local Dominican barbershop I could hear the laughter and competitiveness in the air of the guys, I just knew they must have been playing sometime of card game or dominoes. When I passed the corner store I heard the little boy whining and begging his mother to buy him candy and it was obvious he wasn't getting his way. Soon I decided to head home before the street lights went out. Walking back was not as interesting as when I first began my walk but it was understandable once the street lights come on the streets clear. The most I could hear was the nearest catholic church ringing its bells for the new hour. Taking this sound walk really opened my eyes to the various sounds you encounter on a daily basis but complete ignore or maybe just mute out. The ambience sounds in life really help to establish settings and realism. Thinking about a movie with out all the various sounds that I heard on my sound walk would make a film seem less realistic.

Audio Assignment

Bruce Interview

Bruce Interview



Granted this is a late assignment but I just realized we had this assignment. I am obviously not good with emails I've just realized about the "in between assignments" we were given, but what ever this is my loss and I completely understand. This is the work in progress assignment but I will be critiquing a completed project because they don't have a work in progress uploaded to complete.

1. I dont exactly find it necessary that Bruce included the introduction for Jonathan because as a class we know who they are. In the beginning it almost sounds as if Bruce accidentally left that segment of the interview in.

 2. I feel as if Bruce should have have Jonathan slow down a bit I think he is talking a bit to fast and it is a little difficult to understand him in the beginning.

 3. I like when Jonathan talks about his creativity and imagination. I think it establish a sense of nostalgia and all students listening even adults can resonate with section of the interview. i think the sound effect with the children really take your mind back a bit and your really start to listen to the words Jonathan is saying because you can in a sense feel and understand him.

 4. There is a jump from Jonathan saying he composes symphonies to him continuing and saying "when you're a technician.." I think there needed to be some type of connecting moment between the two because it sounds very jumpy although he is still talking about music and the creation, its just two different thoughts that maybe shouldn't have been combined. Jonathan gets very passionate about being the best when it comes to creating sounds and I think it would have just been better if they weren't combined.