Research Sound - Student Examples

Of the student research sound examples that I found there were two that I found particularly interesting one was about poetry and the other was about attention deficit disorder.

I guess I found the piece on poetry interesting because it both describes the art of writing poetry and gives examples of different types of poetry. Not only does the piece accomplish this but it accomplishes it in a very poetic way, the rhythmic beating of the drum in the background sounds a lot like one of those drums you might hear someone playing at a poetry reading while they recite poems, and the use of different voices all work together in this very poetic fluid way that is both informative yet interesting because of the way the voices overlap.

I found the piece on A.D.D. to be similar to the poetry piece in the sense that it was also narrative, but what I found especially interesting about this piece was the way all the voices jumbled together sounds like the thoughts and voices that might be going through someone with A.D.D. and I thought the way the artist did this is what took the piece to the next level. There are also a few instances throughout the piece where you get a real clear sense of who the person is that actually has A.D.D., for example there's one case where there's a voice that says "I'm so bored, but yet I'm still hyper" and then there's something about his head feeling like "a million people jogging an olympic race." The piece also finishes with a voice saying "Andrew pay attention," which I find to be a really nice touch, it's almost as though the entire piece was just the person with A.D.D. wondering off thinking about all these things when really they should be paying attention to something else. This is a good example of creating a situation or narrative that conveys the point through the use of structure and composition rather than just words alone, and I found it really effective.

Neither one of these pieces really seems to focus on pitch, tone or timber all that much, although they are all used in some way. The main focus of these pieces seems to be in the narrative and although that's different from the representational and abstract sounds that we have been studying, I think they both work nicely.