Anthony's Family

Anthony's Family

Running Time: 2:10

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Essay #2

Daniel Kalder says he practices in the act of "anti-tourism". With that said, he meant that as he travels around the world, he does not comply to normal tourism spots and activities (Kalder). Examples of anti-tourism would be: instead of heading to France and sighting the Eiffel Tower, he would go exploring to the smallest village in Europe, learning about the customs and people that live there. The reason why Kalder embraces anti-tourism is for learning more about the culture that surrounds the area. Kalder's interview talks about how history books and travel pamphlets "...usually just tell the same stories over and over and over again" (Kalder). Therefore, traveling to unpopular locations expands a traveler's knowledge. Many of the random unknown places that Kalder visits, he has a sense that "Nobody's watching", not many people in the world know about it. This explains why he embraces anti-tourism and goes along by sharing to the world his experiences in his book.

Field Recording #2

In The Mall

Time: Evening - 1:00 PM

Location: Bayshore Mall

Running Time: 1:56

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Field Recording #1

Melting Bus Stop

Date: 3/10/2015

Time: Evening - 5:00 PM

Location: East Hartford Bus Stop

Running Time: 2:20

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From Calm to Eerie (Remastered)

From Calm to Eerie (Remastered)

In this part, I've decided to exclude the creepy low voice laugh during the gradual machine noise because it is very hard to hear it. I've lowered a bit a volume on parts where it began to explode the speakers, furthermore I've added more interesting sounds that I've edited extremely in order to create a little more eeriness. Another big change is that I've decided to add the rain part on the beginning of the sound piece in order to transition it to make it sound like the man entered a building while still hearing the rain hitting against the walls. Hopefully this sounds better than the last.

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Listening and Recording

"From Calm To Eerie"

What I've decided to do with this project was manipulate the sound using "Speed" and "Pitch" effects that are used in Audacity. I was aiming more for a calm setting at first where this man was minding his own business with a few other people on a picnic having a good time. Later, on he decides to take a walk to a very Eerie place that was not far from where he stood. You will notice his world becomes to shift in to a more frightening atmosphere, when the sounds begin to lower (E.g the ambulance you will hear in the beginning) his footsteps will transition from walking onto the grass to walking on a cold metallic ground - approaching some sort of machine, monster, whatever you wish to imagine the noise will gradually come closer. Since I had very little time to conjure up a conclusion I would say the ending is rather anti-climatic, nevertheless I believe I still managed to create my story.

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Furthermore, here are my descriptions from all of the sound clips I've heard for this assignment.

026 - Jet, fuzzy
03 - Grass noise
036 - Outerspace, creepy
03C - Campfire, construction, rain?
03D - Endless creaking noise
04B - Outside noise, people talking
05B - More outside noise, lots of rustling
05C - Outside, jets coming by
06 - Muffled noise, sounds like someone is reaching for something in his pocket
07 - Distant street noise
07B - Construction inside
09 - People setting up band stuff
10 - Bass noise, could be a club or car
11 - Outside sweeping, bass music playing
12 - Sounds like a garage
13 - Keys jingling
15 - Cars, traffic, etc
16 - Waves
16B - Car background noises
17 - People talking
19 - Guy breathing, guy crying?
20 - Closing door, drill
21 - Muffled talking, party outside
22 - Cars driving by, last part are chimes jingling
23 - Beeping, loud shot, kind of intense
24 - Digging? scraping, cars, airplanes, etc