The article discusses in detail the power of silence. Does silence exert its own power in your life, and do you exert a power over it? If so, how? Stocker describes in detail the effect of noise in particular, and its relation to nausea, painting it in a negative light. Is all noise negative? What… Read more Questions for Stocker article 9/19/17 pt 2
I took a five minute sound walk while I was waiting for the 38 bus and I surprisingly found that our campus is actually pretty quiet. I could recognize sound of some insects making sounds and moving around the grass and I saw a squirrel biting an echinacea which also resulted in some sounds. Birds… Read more Soundwalk at the 38 Bus stop next to the Rockies
What ways do you think sound changes when we are safe or when we are exposed? Stocker discusses gender based perceptions. How accurate do you feel these assumptions are? Considering the effects of various noises on adrenalin production, how do you think the intrusion of cell phone rings and vibrations in our daily lives impacts… Read more Questions for Stocker article 9/19/17
I went out of pratt without noticing that my earphones were on. Everything was quiet. The sounds around me were masked by a soft sponge. But I could still hear the whisper of bugs, people’s laugh from a distant place, PVTA’s honking… those with high frequency penetrated the sponge. I took off my earphones and… Read more Sound Walk(Sit) around Lower Lake
I took a soundwalk around 2pm yesterday; I was really interested to see the sounds I would hear during the bustle of campus, but at a time where a lot of people had class. There was a lot of activity, but it wasn’t so much that I was overwhelmed. I was kind of surprised by… Read more Haley Rivers Soundwalk
I did a soundwalk around upper lake around 10PM and the most prominent sounds that I heard were cicadas mixed in with the occasional acceleration or deceleration of a car going down the hill in the distance or a bird calling. I could hear my own footsteps on the gravel path and when I would… Read more Soundwalk around upper lake
Before going out to get dinner, I thought it would be a perfect time to go out and take a soundwalk. It wasn’t too noisy or to quiet and I started walking from Safford. As I walked the most prominent noise I heard was the crickets’ sound. It was subtle while it filled the whole… Read more Soundwalk around the campus
Being a person that walks regularly with earbuds in, I decided to give myself a challenge and not walk with my earphones the whole day. I wanted today to be a total sound walk. It started out as a sound sit as a read a couple of articles with my windows open in my dorm… Read more Victoria’s Soundwalk
I took a 13 minute soundwalk from Youtube through the Jochi-ji Temple. To start off, I notice immediately two things: The birds tweeting and people talking. While those noises intermittently came and went, it was the automobiles that caused the most ruckus through out the soundwalk, at some points I couldn’t even hear the people… Read more Soundwalk – Jochi-ji Japanese Temple
When I was on my sound walk, I got curious about peepers and why they are calling in the Fall. I found this and thought you might think it interesting. The mysterious autumn calls of the Spring Peeper