Wednesday, January 13, 2010

environmental sound object

short, intermittent scrapes from behind. sh-SHH-sh.... ch-SHHH-sh...sh-SHHHH-sh..... barely audible, high-pitch fade in / fade out. clop Clop CLOP Clop clop. low murmur............ mmmmmMmmMMMmmmmmmmm. in front of me ssSSSSSSsssssss. TAP TAP TAP Tap tap tap tap. huammmmmnnnnnssssss. CLANG! (Muffled, rhythmic, periodic) Bbbb--Kkk--Bbbbb-Kkkk. clop clop clop.

PLTSS.

claptinkleClopclopJangletinkleclopClopCLOPClopclop. low murmur, echo clap YEEEEAAHHhhhh........ Ckkkkkkkshhhhh. tap !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmclopmmmmClopmmmmCLOPmmmmmsqueakCLOPmmmmsqueakCLOPmmmmmmmm

PLTSS.

PL-PLTSS.

clop....clop...clop....clop...clop........ clopclopclopclopclopclopclopclopclopclopClopCLOP!

PLTSS....PLTSS. P-PLTSS.........PLTSSS.....PLTSS.PLTSS. CLPSS...CLPSS.

hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

1 comment:

Trace said...

You and Angela in the previous post have taken similar approaches by recreating, phonetically, the sounds that you heard. Contrasted with Leo's post -- which took a more clinical approach to document the frequency, duration, and amplitude of distinct sonorous events -- this post and Angela's both convey these features through visual cues: size of font, effects to font like bold, italics, or coloring, lower- or upper-case, and so on. This works nicely as a score for an abstract sound poetry performance, though this creates new and distinct sonorous events. In this case, again, oral transposition of what the ear hears does not accurately reproduce but rather remediates and recreates. Very interesting.