Part 2: Field Recording
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the art of gathering sounds from the real world.
Check out a Zoom H2 recorder from the cage (or use your own recorder if you have one). Find things in your environment which meet the following criteria and record one sound for each of the following qualities:
- Small room
- Large room
- Cafe or restaurant
- Store or mall
- Exterior, urban
- Exterior, nature
- Quietest ambience possible (very early morning?)
- Other space (gymnasium, pool hall, tunnel, cave, church, nightclub, etc.)
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
Edit your raw recordings into clean and edited sounds. The length of each sound should be long enough to illustrate its sound qualities but not so long that it wears out its welcome. At least 30 seconds but no longer than 5 minutes. Create separate files for each sound you recorded--with just that one sound in the file. Name the file something descriptive which indicates what it is, i.e. "small_room.mp3," etc.
Fill out the Sound Log, with information for each individual sound file, as a blog comment (or link to your own website), with direct links to each MP3:
SOUND LOG
Sound #
File Name
Description of Sound
How, Where and When Created
Comments
Link to file
Remember that you must host your MP3s on your own server or send to instructor via YouSendIt or Dropbox.com.
DEADLINESPart 1: Soundwalk Reflection is due Week 2 at the beginning of class.
Part 2: Field Recording is due Week 3 at the beginning of class.
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I recorded this sound in my room at night while watching tv and the Ac was on.
Sound # 2
Large Room
This sound was recorded in my kitchen. You can mostly hear the noise thats coming out from the refrigerator.
Sound # 3
Cafe or Restaurant
I recorded this sound while I was at work at Hashigo Restaurant. You can hear the background music and customers in the background chit chatting away.
Sound # 4
Store or Mall
This sound was recorded inside a Trader Joes in the morning. You can hear shopping carts, cash registers, and people walking around.
Sound # 5
Exterior, Urban
I recorded this sound outside 5 Points Plaza in Huntington Beach. You can hear people outside walking and talking and cars passing by.
Sound # 6
Exterior, Nature
I went to a park the other day I recorded a kid playing on the playground. You can hear the wind blowing and sounds of metal bars on the jungle gym.
Sound # 7
Quietest ambience possible
For this sound, I went outside my balcony at 2am. All you can hear is the sounds of cars passing by. I'm on the 3rd floor, so it was pretty peaceful.
Sound # 8
Other Space
I went into the gym at my complex. You can hear the sounds of the weights and metals bars being used.
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SmallRoomFixed.wav
I left the zoom in a small room and let it do sounds at 2:30am
Bf’s bed room, 2:30am, left it inside and went into the kitchen.
Maybe too quiet.
Shared with folder invite.
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LargeRoomFixed.wav
You can here the low flame of the fire in the fireplace and some of my friends breakfast noises.
Sat in open room with zoom on a stand, friend’s house in laguna, 10:30am
Once again I think I made this too quiet.
Shared with folder invite.
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CafeFixed.wav
Clinking, talking, bird chirping, metal patio furniture moving, light wind
Sat, order food, propped up zoom and drank my drink. Also had to use my sweatshirt and purse to block wind, Gypsy Den, 1:15pm
Other than a few groups who were louder at times it was easy. Though next time I shouldn’t feed the birds.
Shared with folder invite.
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Mall.wav
muffled music, people talking, children crying, footsteps, echo, music.
Stood next to a planter on the second floor playing with my phone and hiding the zoom. Soutch Coast Plaza, 12:20pm
Had to be near a entrance to get enough people sounds, otherwise they were too distinct.
Shared with folder invite.
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UrbanOutsideFixed.wav
Traffic driving by on the freeway and getting off.
Set zoom up on metal city box. South Coast Dr. Off ramp 3:00am
It takes work to get rid of the reverb on it, otherwise it doesn’t sound like traffic.
Shared with folder invite.
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NatureOutsideFixed.wav
Waves coming in late at night.
Stood at the beach blocking wind with my body, Laguna Beach 12:30am
Punk ass kids yelling in the middle of the night. STFU!
Shared with folder invite.
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3amFixed.wav
Park at night
Set zoom on grass and walked away, Cape Park 3am
Might be too quiet
Shared with folder invite.
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ShowerFixed.wav
Taking a shower
Set on sink counter and took a shower, Bf’s bathroom, 11:00p
With some interesting effects I made a strange techno sound.
Shared with folder invite.
#1 Small Room.mp3
ReplyDelete07/28/10 2:30pm
Lobby of Nordstrom’s regional office in building C reasonably quite space carpeted so no footsteps can hear door opening and closing (metal and glass door)
#2 Large Room.mp3
07/28/10 3:45pm
Open lab room in building A at Ai can hear slight chatter here and there, keyboards being typed on, the scanner is scanning and you can hear some one plug in an external hard drive next to me at the end of the recording.
#3 Café.mp3
07/28/10 1:30pm
Wahoo fish tacos in South Coast Plaza you can hear the clang of dishes being cleared from the tables, people conversing, and you can hear the sound of wooden chairs being pushed along a tile floor.
#4 Mall.mp3
07/28/10 1:15pm
South Coast Plaza 3rd floor in front of the Calvin Kline store you can hear background noise of people talking but can not make out their conversations and you can slightly hear a mother taking to her daughters.
#5 Exterior urban.mp3
07/28/10 12:10pm
Underground parking garage South Coast Plaza Tires screeching on polished concrete, two trucks with binging noises start to reverberate off of each other and can hear the sound of vehicles starting and engines running.
#6 Exterior Nature.mp3
07/28/10 1:45pm
Wakeham Park you can hear 405 freeway off in the distance, breeze blowing through the trees
#7 Quietest.mp3
07/27/10 1:55am
My living room at my home in Long Beach cannot hear much but you can hear a car pass by at the end in the distance.
#8 Freeway Offramp.mp3
07/28/10 2:05pm
Off ramp of the 405 by IKEA you can hear cars and trucks pass and you can hear the leaves moving in the breeze.