Our group, Shreya, and Lisa had a lot of ideas about how to go about this assignment and we recorded multiple sounds for each category. For the bad interview sound, we recorded at Lower when everybody was leaving and chatting by the front doors. Shreya was asking me a question and Lisa was recording on her iPhone. Our bad interview sound was made “better” because we had somebody turn on their radio and play music. This was a coincidence that made it almost impossible to hear me. For the human world, I suggested the sound of me eating an apple because I had casually brought an apple with me, and I love the sound of biting into a good apple. When we played it back it had a satisfying feel to it and we went with it. For the nonhuman world sound, we used crunching leaves and wind. When I heard the audio back it sounded like a saw to me. Nature sounds are tricky to work with because they can sound like various things, and they’re out of your control. For the made world sound we put a plate into the microwave and let it heat up. I wasn’t sure how the sound would come out because I thought it might be too much or get distorted. However, the sound ended up great and I could imagine someone warming something up. When you can imagine it in your head, you know it’s a success.
