Assignment 1b

I had a lot of fun making the soundscape. I feel like I learned how to convey what a specific emotion actually feels like, just through a bunch of random noises that were all generated by our class. Our sentence was "she continued yelling from the kitchen", and so as we were working through our soundscape, we really put ourselves into our sentence. What does it feel like to be in an argument? is it always loud, or are their moments of pauses? How does your body react? If this argument is in the kitchen, what other noises would I hear? How would my cooking be effected by anger? These were all questions that we really took seriously when making our soundscape. I honestly did not think I would be able to dive in so deeply to a question that was randomly assigned to us. We began to work our soundscape in a wave form, as we felt like arguments generally move in waves of emotion, from out of control anger, to moments of silence. When I listened to the final soundscape, I felt my body react to the waves of noise in the same way it would in an argument. My heart started beating faster during the loud and chaotically uncontrolled part, and I felt relief and nervousness during the quiet part in anticipation of another wave. Even though our soundscape sounds rather raw since we did not go farther and distort the sounds and put effects on them, I feel that it was appropriate to leave it this way because an argument is just that, raw and messy.