"I don't want a sound to pretend that it's a bucket, or that it's a president, or that it's in love with another sound." - John Cage

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"Sound is acting, and I love the activity of sound."

I found this video with John Cage talking about music, sound and silence quite fascinating. I know this course is about orchestrating and designing sounds with ( Read more... )

In session 2 of Creative Production: Sound, we learnt about soundwalking. It was pretty interesting, taking and trying out the recording equipment (note: Marantz and K6) around campus to give an aural idea of the areas we recorded in. Listening through the headphones at everything was a whole new experience: so much seemed to be going around me all ( Read more... )

In our first lecture, the idea of using silence as a sound was briefly mentioned. And then I realised, no human with normally functioning hearing has ever heard silence before. Even if we think there is no sound, we will always hear the rush of our own blood through our body, and perhaps the quiet thudding of the heart that keeps us living. ( Read more... )

For our session 1 homework, we had to use the BBC sound effects library and Adobe Audition to create a setting of a location of our choice.

After looking through the library, I decided to create a scene that reminded me of something familiar. Here's how I would imagine a 茶餐廳 or cafe by the harbourfront. In this case, it would be near one of the ( Read more... )

Log update from last week's lecture (Introduction to Film Studies ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm Christine and this is my sound blog ( Read more... )