A walk around the Drawing Studio

This is an experimental sound scape that was created during my time at the CVA. As I walked around the CVA, listening to the noises that the building makes, I couldn't help but notice the absence of sounds made by people. I have noticed that the halls and most classrooms are quiet and empty when I am there. I felt like a trespasser in the drawing studio, even though I have spent many hours in that space. I walked around the space utilizing whatever materials were accessible to create noise. All the while feeling like someone would "catch" me and ask me what I was doing there. The sound scape is an audio demonstration of the sounds I produced from field recordings with added audio, paired with audio to produce the apprehension felt of possibly being caught in a place that I didn't belong. Is that a metaphor for life? That is to be determined later......

Credits:

Erica Wehri - field recordings taken in the CVA, Outside the CVA, and a private residence

• Elevator opening and closing

• Masonite on easels, trash can, spray booth, benches

• Moving a wooden bench and metal stool

• Switching on and off the metal lap and hitting the globe with the edge of my phone

• Aerosol Spray can in sink

• Soap dispenser pumping, water running, drain gurgling

• Metal rod on metal file cabinet, metal paper cutter, concrete floor, easel, spray booth

• Keys, opening and closing a vehicle door, starting the ignition

Public Domain recording sampled, retrieved from freesound.org

• EDM Hey Sample https://freesound.org/s/348568/ Noncommercial 3.0 License

• Running on Stairs https://freesound.org/s/232663/ Attribution 3.0 License

• Walking https://freesound.org/s/463218/ Creative Commons 0 License

Responses / Ideas from Critique:

• Clunking around the house, someone got hurt and needed to be taken to the Dr.

• Running Errands - Grocery store sounds

• Working in a workshop, blacksmith, hammering, craftsman

• Moving around the house, frustrated as the noises became louder / faster

• Tempo change from slow to fast

• Yell, remembered something unsettling

• Rushing

• Cutting up vegetables

• Going to work, elevator sound

• Working with your hands,

• Stairwell, running out

• Chef catering job, spooked by a child

• Blend the sounds to interact, worked well about the halfway point, where there was a back and forth

• Consider call and response

• Weave sounds together, utilize long decay

• Add dimension w/ sound

• Long vibration sound and abrupt stop, floating feeling after the sound stops

Notes:

• What is the opposite of the obvious? Harmony vs. discourse