Experimental Process

Sound is everywhere, where ever I go. Even silence is like a sound, that is why it's peaceful and it creates harmony in those who love it.

So far using my MacBook to record sounds on Audacity, it's really hard to choose how I will record a sound naturally so it seems manipulated and constructed.

These are the following materials I tried using:

- Kitchen knives
- Cushion
- Finger(s)
- Handheld vacuum
- Metal studs

All seems useable but I need a test subject, I need a friend or a stranger to test out if the sounds I've recorded sounds constructed and fake that is not within our thoughts of reality.

The materials I've used have been hit together, moving the object further away from the mic or literally touching the surface of the mic to create a manipulation.

The knives I thought worked pretty well because depending on the way the knives passed each other scratching from side to side created a high pitch sound in between.

The cushion and finger(s) were used to be touch the surface of the mic to actually create a sound of interference. Not sure whether it's working or not but it definitely sounds like if someone was to talk this sound is just right to interrupt or interfere.

The handheld vacuum was a little difficult as I would have to swing it side to side to create a loopy sound. Overall it technically sounded quite natural rather than constructed because this sound is heard a lot at home when the cleaning of vacuum is made.

Last but not least the metal stud gave quite a dramatizing affect. It was clattering, loud and repetitive, though I'm not sure if it was repetitive enough to make it sound constructed.

Progress is still very slow. I never knew that sound would be such a difficult topic to approach because I myself might think a certain sound is reality while others might not. How we each perceive the sound is different...

More investigation and experimentation will be made...and hopefully I can get the naturally recorded one finished by tonight.