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One of my favorite places to study on this campus is the Math Lounge, which is located on the second floor of Pardee Hall. It is also the quietest place I know on campus on Friday afternoons and Sunday nights.

AC:

Chairs Moving:

Typing on Laptop:

Flipping Through Notebook:

Coughing (I’m still kinda sick):

Writing on Chalkboard:

Erasing Chalkboard:

Elevator Sound:

Key Dangling:

Vacuum:

Vending Machine:

Doors Opening and Closing:

Footsteps:

Basketball Bouncing:

Basketball Shooting:

 

 

The audio above is from me sitting in my dorm room. The sounds you will hear in order are; a fan blowing, facetime call, paper rustling, music playing, keyboard clicking, pen tapping, commercial playing, a person singing, more music playing and a draw opening.

The second audio is from the bathroom in my dorm. The sounds in order are; running water from the sink, tissue dispenser, paper towel rustling, bathroom door closing, toilet flushing, shower curtain closing, shower running, shower shutting off, bathroom door opening, a person washing out their mug and their spoon.

The most quiet place I could imagine was Cross Lots Park. It is a huge land trust that only a few dog owners use to walk their pets. Cross Lots is located near a road, a train station, and a candle factory so there was a variety of quiet sounds I could hear from the park.

Car

Plane flying over head

Leaves of trees rustling in the wind

Dog in the park panting after its walk

Dog Chain sound as dog was walking

Birds

Dog barking at a different dog

Car door slamming

Train off in the distance

Footsteps of dog running

Owner talking to their dog

Me walking

Wind followed by a motorcycle driving by

Crickets

Geese

Car horn

Cicadas

For this project, the quietest place I know is my backyard on Parsons Street. I like to go to my backyard to do my work, or to just relax by myself. There are three standing trees, and many bushes around my yard. There is a big wooden fence framing the backyard. I heard and experienced many different sounds I never would have payed attention to. I stood/sat outside for thirty minutes and captured many different sounds/natural elements. Some I made more exaggerated than others, however they were all sounds from my backyard.  Doing this activity after reading the Russolo article I had a lot of fun capturing the “noise-sounds” of nature/outside. It was fun to break the restrictive circle of pure sounds in order to conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.

Air: I held my phone in the air to capture all the noise/sounds around me.

Cars: Cars were passing by in the distance and I tried to capture their fading sounds.

Birds: There were a few birds in the distance that were chirping.

Breathing: I was focusing on my breathing and trying to relax. However, when I tried to capture my breathing I might have put the microphone a little too close because the sound is very loud.

Chewing gum: WARNING – very unpleasant sounding, but after only 5 minutes of standing outside I realized that I was chewing very loudly.

Leaves crinkling: After walking around a bit I picked up some leaves and recorded myself crunching them in my hands. The more I listen to it, the more I hate the sound of forced leaves crinkling. I prefer the natural sound of leaves crinkling under your feet.

Breaking twigs: I noticed breaking twigs while walking is a sort of peaceful sound so I wanted to hear what the individual sound was like, and it’s not very pleasant either.

Machine: This  is the sound of the air conditioning unit that is in the back corner of my yard. It is very distilling and looks extremely unattractive. Russolo talks about the revolution of music being paralleled by the increasing proliferation of machinery, which I found very interesting and important to be aware of in this day and age.

Chair moving: I went to go sit down and pulled the chair over the brick patio, and this was the sound it made.

Wind: It is very faint, but if you listen closely you can hear the wind passing by the microphone.

Scratching head: My hair was a little itchy so I scratched my head and this was an interesting, noisy sound.

Fire truck: I waited until the fire truck got as close as possible before it rounded the street, and then started recording. It was interesting to hear the siren fade away.

Squirrels attacking: I went to go sit back down by the fence, and two squirrels ran right by my head on top of the fence. The first seconds you can hear me scream and regroup myself. As one ran right by me, the other one stopped and we had an ultimate stare down. Then it hissed at me (00:09) and then you hear me hissing two times back. It was so crazy I got this on tape, it was a total accident, I clicked the button when I screamed initially.

Wind/Leaves moving: towards the end of this recording you can really hear the leaves in the trees moving with the wind.

Twig against fence: I made the sound of the twig brushing up against the fence to see what the recording would be like.

Everyone has different sides to them. The sides get released momentarily when a person chooses to unleash them.

Biddle

This photo series is titled “Losing Myself”. It depicts the action of losing your inner soul without even realizing it.

For my performance photography project I was photographed watching a baseball game. Baseball can be a slow game at times, but at other points it can get very exciting and because of that I did a few pictures laid back and a couple on the edge of my seat.  The response I got was pretty good I thought. I got a little over 100 likes and I also had four comments.

The idea here is to walk out of a spotlight someone else made and make your own happiness even if it’s in the dark. And overall, this is a form of art so I took paint brushes and wiped it up my face to reflect myself creating happiness.

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I titled this photograph “13” for two reasons. One is that I fell, thus the unlucky number 13. The other is the fact that the size of images are in a Fibonacci Sequence. The first and the second images are the same size of 1, then 2, 3, 5, 8, and the largest is 13 times bigger than the first image. Since I am a math major, I thought it would be interesting to use some math in the art.

The responses were all over the place. On Facebook, I usually make comments such as #FakeNews to joke around with my friends, thus my friends did the exact same thing to this post.