One thing I quickly noticed was that the first syllables of the words “rhythm” and “smooth” were elongated, making it sound like “rrrrrhythm” and “sssssmooth”. I thought this was interesting because it broke up the fluency of the audio and made it a good checkpoint to know when the audio cycled, which took me a while to realize- that he was saying the same thing over and over.
Another thing I noticed was that the audio got hollower and there was a rise of the ‘ringing’ sound, which I attributed to the sound reverberating off the walls of the room he was sitting in. Eventually, the words echoed out to become just sounds that reminded me of bells playing in an empty church. I thought it was really cool that the audio was able to progress like that, from very intelligible speech to sounds that don’t resemble voices at all.
After reading the article, it made me think about how audio pieces are presented in a museum. Even if the audio was prerecorded, just the space that it’s performed in and the speaker system the audio goes through can greatly affect the performance. In that way, it creates a unique and different experience every time.
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