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I really wish we talked more about bird calls, especially given the amount of birds here at Hampshire. I hear them all the time and they always brighten up my day. I wish I could identify them.

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There is something to be said about silence. It can be so peaceful and calming. Being a morning person, I've come to appreciate the soundscape of mornings. It always quiet as I'm the first one up, maybe just a few bird chirping outside my window. This part of my day is very relaxing and allows me to have time to myself.

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I was most engaged with the Sonic Sea movie we were assigned. This movie was really interesting because they addressed unique problems that often go overlooked. I found it pretty shocking how much humans pollute the ocean soundscape and the damage that causes. They actually mentioned that humans are doing so much damage that we are essentially "acoustically bleaching the ocean". This problem is much more pressing when you consider how essential sound is to animals. Sound is their main form of communication and they depend heavily on it for things like locating food and finding their friends. The matter only gets worse when you realize water is a very good conductor for sound. This means when humans introduce a sound in the ocean, that sound will effect the surrounding environment for thousands of miles. I found this very disheartening and acts as yet another blow to our relationship with the planet. I also wonder what possible solutions exist.

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It's crazy how something so small can suddenly become so important, for example, hand sanitizer. It was once a handy item to carry in the car or in a bag but its become an essential tool for any trip outside of the house. I must sanitize at least 5 times a day.

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I often find myself wondering how much more sensitive cat's hearing is than humans. My cat Lily is especially in tune to the sound of an open window. Even if the window is being opened in a room across the house, she'll sense it and immediately run towards it. She often sits on the windowsill when the window is open and listens to the sounds from outside.

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This is one of many conversations I have with my cat. I have no idea why she does this, though its often just to get attention. She's very vocal and I often wish I could understand her. When she responds to me I wonder how much she understands. I think it's really special that she talks to me and makes me feel very connected to her, even if we are completely different beings.

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The three themes I gout out of this text were body, economics and power.
The main theme I picked up on in this reading was health and or the body. They talk about the effects of noise on the body and it's health condition multiple times through out the reading. They cover the many negative impacts noise can have relating to the body. Another theme I picked up on in this reading was economics. The many relationships that noise and economics share is talked about. For example how lower income communities often have more noise pollution.  I also saw a theme of power. The reading suggested a lot of things that have power or control over noise, more specifically noise pollution.
These three themes were all discussed relating to noise.

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I'm happy to say this will be one of my last recordings of this sound. The weather is finally changing and as it does the sounds of winter disappear.

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This is a recording of some birds chirping at the Hampshire farm. I took this after one of my in-person classes at the farm. Birds kept flying in and out of the pig enclosure, singing as they went.

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I got the chance to see one of my other cats recently. He's a really weird cat and we think he may have some sort of memory loss. He'll run away from you like he's never seen you before, but when he decides its time, he'll come up to you and beg to be pet. I was able to capture one of these moments- this is a recording of him purring while being pet.

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3/4/21 The Voice of the Natural World Response 

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3/4/21 The Voice of the Natural World Response 

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I found this Ted Talk to be the most interesting out of our resources for the weekend, it really stuck with me. The talk was really eye opening, I had never considered using careful listening as a tool to determine the health of an ecosystem. It was hard to hear the effects humans have on animals and their ecosystems. The story Krouse told at the end of his talk about the beavers was absolutely devastating. It really makes me wonder how much damage humans cause by making so much noise.

It also has me thinking about our final project and if there could be a way to record an effect humans have on animals. Maybe we could do something like recording birds singing, then driving by them and seeing if it changes anything.

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I am assuming slides 3 are the lungs because there seems to be the most room for air to travel through. Slides 2 were the bowels because I could imagine them contracting in as stuff moves through the intestines. And that leaves slides 1 as the heart, I figured these were the heart because it looked like they had the most muscle in them.

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This is a bird call I heard over the weekend. I'm not sure what bird it is, but the call is very familiar and distinctive. I love hearing these birds, they make me think spring is coming. I used Audacity to edit out some of the walking sounds in the recording.

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2/26/21 What is a protein and why would we care about its sound? 

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2/26/21 What is a protein and why would we care about its sound? 

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Proteins are important to understand because they are a building block for all living things. Proteins take on different levels of structure, starting with primary then secondary, then tertiary and lastly quaternary. Musical compositions are made up of a similar structure. Sound waves into timbers, timbers into melodies and chords. Seeing that proteins and musical compositions take on a similar structure, it can be interesting to translate the sequence of proteins into the sequence of music.

Music: sound waves→ timbers→ melodies→ chords→ chords and melodies together

Proteins: primary →secondary→ tertiary →quaternary

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This is a recoding of my friend Jess laughing. It's a very short clip, but I was trying to do it without her noticing. It a very authentic sound and it brings me a lot of joy. There is something very enlightening and contagious about someone else's pure laughter.

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This is a recording of my friends and I walking to Prescott. By walking, we are marking the planet with our footsteps. In the recording you can hear walking on snow, a unique sound of winter. I toyed with the audio in Audacity for a bit but came to the conclusion it was best untouched.

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This recording was taken while I was painting on a piece of cardboard. You can hear multiple brush strokes, some long, some short. The other main noise you can hear in this audio clip is reapplying paint to the brush. The paint bottle when doing this makes a really unique sound. Using Audacity I trimmed the recording and cut out some portions with excessive background noise. I also used Audacity to enhance the volume.

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This is a recording of my writing on paper using a pencil. I am marking the paper using the pencil. Using Audacity I turned the volume of the clip up to make it sound a bit more clear.

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This is a recording of writing on a dry erase board with a marker. The marker has an interesting squeak to it. The volume has been enhanced using Audacity.

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This is an audio I recorded of my cat. She is purring and kneading a soft blanket in her bed. It sounds like rustling but it really just her pulling on the fabric. The sound makes me so happy.

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Birds singing outside my window at 7:21 am. A perfect way to wake up.

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2/10/2021 "A Happy Sound in Dakin" Edited 

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2/10/2021 "A Happy Sound in Dakin" Edited 

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I was very confused during the demonstration and could only figure out some of the basic functions on audacity. I was able to remove the parts of the video with only background noise, no humming. This made her humming sound a bit more like short melody rather than part of a song. It also makes the audio much less authentic, I think it diminished the soothing aspect of the humming. I get less joy from this audio than I did the original version. I also increased the volume of the clip.

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This is a recording of my friend humming. She's humming a theme song to a show we had recently been watching. She didn't know I was recoding so the sound is very authentic. This recording brings me joy, I feel her laughter spreading to me.

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I observed this before I came to back Hampshire at the start of February but I thought about this class when I was observing it and think it is note worthy. I noticed Geese commonly flying past my house during January. They were always honking which led me to question why the honk and why they always seem to be honking while they fly. I also noted they were not in any particular formation while flying which I thought was unusual, as a kid I remember geese always flying in a specific V shaped formation.

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I found this audio very interesting and had listen to it a few times to really digest it. One thing I found really moving about the piece was the the singer remained singing even though they were being talked over and ignored. She must have been very persistent and dedicated to have kept singing through the madness of the crowd. The singer makes me think of what it feels like to be overlooked in social situations and how prominent this issue is as a woman. We are often not given the time of day even when we are tying our hardest.