We are Laura and Devin. This is our project. Our first task was deciding what to record. This meant deciphering what each of the audio prompts was asking for. The one we struggled with the most was the made-world because the human and non-human world seemed fairly straightforward. What does the “made-world” entail? Clearly it must be something different from the human and non-human world. We decided the made-world is a world that is created by humans and would not have existed without us. It is able to function without human stimulus. The fountain was built and implemented into Muhlenberg’s campus by someone, but it stands alone and produces its own sound.

We took out both the zoom voice recorder and the Tascam recorder so we could decided which one we preferred. We ended up recording our sounds using the zoom voice recorder. It was fairly easy. We messed with the input volume setting to try to capture more sound, especially when recording the non-human world (wildlife). After we recorded everything we connected and uploaded the media to Devin’s macbook using the usb connecter. We realized we needed to export the media from Quicktime (wav) to m4p to get it on the blog. Hope it worked!

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Human world (coffee steamer):

Made world (fountain):

Non-human world (wildlife):