Interview Rough Cut

This is the rough cut with my interview with the bassist of gay riot. Listen here.

Essay #3 Extra Credit

Aural Architecture

             I'm screaming at the top of the grand canyon. All I can hear is my voice bounce off the rough surfaces of the rocks into the ears of the animals around me. Everything is loud and echos like my voice is traveling all over the world. The grand canyon has an aural architecture that is a large space that allows my voice to echo and travel. "The composite of numerous surfaces, objects, and geometries in a complicated environment creates an aural architecture," (Blesser and Salter 2).

             Aural architecture is a combination of everything in a room. Every room has its own tone that allows listener to feel something evoked from that particular room. The sound of a room can provide a feeling for a listener. "The acoustics of an open area can produce feelings of either freedom or insecurity," (Blesser and Salter 2). Everyone has their own experiences; therefore, everyone's experiences with aural architecture are different. My experience at the grand canyon can be totally different from someone else's. While I think the grand canyon is vast and relays a feeling of openness and potential with the traveling of my voices, someone else may think it is daunting and too big for one to compress sound. 

             Aural architecture is dependent on one's understanding on the world. "Depending on the physical design and the cultural context, aural architecture can stimulate anxiety, tranquility, socialization, isolation, frustration, fear, boredom, aesthetic pleasure, and so on," (Blesser and Salter 11). The experience of aural architecture is all very subjective. To have a basic understanding of aural architecture, one must have an understanding of spatial awareness. "These four aspects of auditory spatial awareness correspond to four aspects of aural architecture: social, navigational, aesthetic, and musical spatiality" (Blesser and Salter 12). This is also where deep listening can come into play because deep listening allows for one to have spatial awareness.

          Overall, it is important to know that aural architecture is a part of our everyday lives. The rooms that we surround ourselves with all have their own aural architecture. The way we have lived shapes our understanding of that structure. 

    

Works Cited

Blesser, Barry, and Linda R. Salter. Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. Print.

My Rant about South of Nowhere

This is my rant about season three of South of Nowhere. (recorded in my car)
It's nine takes in one! Final run time is 1:52.
Listen for the mp3 version here.
Listen to the wav. version here.