Sound Recording

Sound recording seemed to begin as a task and quickly evolved into a full blown audio smorgasbord! I started slowly with a few ambient sounds of the outdoors and moved to some household items. But soon after I was excited to being making items take on new sounds. I began to explore new ways to breath new life in to objects that never really contributed itself to my world of sound and had them squeeking, scraping and thumping in many ways. I made a shower curtain sound like a record scratching, I made a dinner plate sound like something from outer space and my guitar strings were in pain. There are so many different sounds that any item can create that we miss them constantly. We take advantage of nearly everything around us and bypass what they can contribute to one of our most overlooked senses. Sound is so overbearing that we actually miss it. Sure we hear horns, sirens, doors closing, iPods blasting in our ears, and people talking, but we often miss the bees buzzing, the wind through the screen, the breathing of the person close to you, tall grass blowing in the breeze, water trickling over rocks and even an ant carrying something ten times its size walking over dry leaves - if you listen closely you can hear it crackle the leaves. We take sound for granted and I try to remember to close my eyes every day and just listen.