Here is the link of my demo:http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~tz1422/0416/
Week 9: Sound Effect Practice-Tina Zhang
Here is the link of my assignment: http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~tz1422/0413/
Week 8: One Minute Clip-Tina Zhang
Based on the suggestions that my Professor gave me in the last class, I re-recorded the sounds separately. And I combined more than 30 sound clips, which include the sound of boiling water, walking, closing the door, pouring water, dropping a book, sound from the outside, etc. to create a one-minute sound clip. And I hope that I can use it in my project as part of the main character’s daily life.
Here is the link to my one-minute sound clip: http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~tz1422/one_minute/
Week 8: Project 3- Concept Draft – Tina Zhang
In this project, I want to create a webpage for the users to experience the daily life of a blind girl/boy, thus raising people’s awareness of the disabled.
I will first draw a map of the entire house that the blind girl/boy lives in. The map will be shown to the users as soon as they open the webpage, but it will fade out in ten seconds, (if possible, I would like to set a countdown here). Then the users will see only a webpage with a black background. And they will be given several tasks sequentially. For instance, go to the kitchen and boil some water, etc. And they have to rely on their memory to complete all the tasks. In the process, they will hear a lot of sounds like slow walking movements, drop a book, etc. They may feel weird at the beginning, but they will be given an answer that this is a normal day in a blind girl/boy’s life.
Week 8: Audio Template and Brief Description-Tina Zhang
In this audio template, I put 9 pieces of audio in it, and I would like to briefly describe each of them in the following.
A1. the sound of boiling water / a long recording / might be used as part of the background sound / the whole process of water boiling
A2. the sound of a book falling / a short recording / can be used multiple times to show the difficulties the blind meet in his/her daily life
A3. the sound of opening a curtain / a short recording / might be used as a symbol of beginning a new day
B1. the sound of drinking water and taking pills / a long recording / can be used multiple times to give the audience hints that he/she is a blind
B2. the sound of the environment outside the window / a long recording / can be used as part of the background sound / especially can be played when the audience triggers the sound of opening the windows etc.
B3. the sound of pouring pills / a short recording / can be used before the sound B1 / a unique part in this sound is that after pouring out the pills, since he/she is blind, the way that he/she make sure the pills are in the correct quantity is to drop them one by one into another plate, and the extra one is put back into the pill bottle
C1. the sound of pouring water / a long recording / since he/she is blind, he/she cannot do this job in a fast speed / have to slowly move their hands and use tactile to sense where the bottle is / also an obstacle faced by the blind
C2. the sound of walk / a mid duration sound / the sound of hesitation and carefulness when walking / move really slowly
C3. the sound of washing dishes / a long duration recording / might need to be recorded separately later and composed together to show a better quality / can be used as another obstacle in the blind’s daily life
Here is the link for my audio template:
Week 8: Reflect on Reading Excerpt: Acoustic Communication-Tina Zhang
This excerpt of the reading mainly introduces the three characteristics of the sound: variety, complexity, and balance. The author mainly focuses on complexity. “In the listen-
ing-in-search mode, the ear is alert to every possible subtlety of information in the environment, and in the listening-in-readiness mode, the auditory system scans all incoming sounds to obtain a match to one that is familiar and recognizable.” This tells me that listeners themselves have their mode to process the sound they heard and then acquire the information that you want to deliver or other things they interpret it to be. “The complexities involved in ascribing meaning to such sound sequences suggests that environmental sound can function as a ’language‘ within a soundscape.” However, the language is what uses a fixed encoding method to let the audience get the exact meaning that the speaker would like to deliver, while soundscapes are what depended on the listeners’ own encoder, for example, how they translate the certain “sound symbol”. In my opinion, besides some basic, or to say, common symbols, such as the sound of rain, some “sound symbols” can lead to misunderstanding. There is no absolute evidence to ensure that all the listeners can acquire the same thing as what the producer is trying to deliver. However, I do think this is also where the charm of the soundscapes lie.