R3 Blog response

After reading the Listen Up article I was able to take a moment and really absorb the sounds happening around me. Sound is a very selective thing and unlike visual cues, our neurons don't instantly process the message to our brain as direct information. Some sounds can be so obscure that we cannot remotely decipher what sound we are hearing. For instance, in another film class of mine we watched a video without sound and we were asked to decipher and interpret the visuals we saw. Without surprise, it was still very easy to complete this task. Next, we were asked to listen to a sound clip without any visual cues available. It was much harder to pick out distinctive sounds and the small details were practically unrecognizable.

The short film, Listen, touched on ideas about how everyone and everything on this planet creates the entire entity of our soundscape. Ranging from our own voice, to nature, and technological equipment, each of these things all add to the summation of our soundscape within this universe. As I said before being able to dissect and individualize each of the sounds that compose our soundscape is quite tricky. After watching the short film, I took a minute to focus intently on each sound in my own bedroom. The hissing of my computer speakers, the loud air gusting from my bathroom, the keys as I type on the computer. Each sound together adds to the composition of our soundscape, as well as a new piece of information our brains tend to let slip by.