Week One - Mapping Sound

So with the first class of the week on the Tuesday I came in ready to learn after reading only a portion of the required reading unfortunately but I went into the lecture to discuss what had crossed my mind as I read the hard copy. Going into class everyone had to say at least one thing on either the Hard Copy or the Internet Reading so I explained about how I never truly appreciated or considered the sound and noise around us and that there was a greater depth that needed to be explored to truly experience life at its' maximum. Or at least I planned to say something around those lines. And after the discussion and a few music clips we were introduced to a famous face, Richard Francis. Expert in sound making and a musician himself in his own rights he talked to his about his life and what he did and what sound and noise was to him. And once that was done we got to truly handle a device called the Zoom H4n. The reason for it's name I'll never know but the device itself is truly amazing. Plugging my headphones into the device and hearing everyone around me was an amazing experience. Feeling like superman for a while felt pretty good being able to hear conversations from afar without even having to be there and hearing the birds themselves properly was something really amazing. So getting onto it we made our four man group quickly as instructed and moved onto recording sounds to get it over with immediately. I was in a group with Versha Naidu, Daniel Lee and Yoshin Naidoo. So we visited metalwork shops, Construction sites and of course Albert Park to follow up on both natural and industrial sounds and went into the studio doing a bit of work to leave the rest for tomorrow.

Image of the Zoom H4N and its functionality below: