Sound Sound, Spin that Ish

Observation 1
As I sit in my room, I can hear the footsteps out in the hall. Some sound heavier than others. I hear the distinct closing of bathroom doors versus room doors in my on campus apartment. In the hall I can hear either hearing the door to the staircase shut, or an apartment door shut, being able to tell which is which. This time the staircase door came first. I can hear my roommate singing rap songs as she dances across the kitchen. I can hear the opening and closing of drawers in the other rooms. Periodically a skateboard clicks and clacks across the sidewalk outside. I can hear the television turn on in the living room.


Observation 2
Wandering around the house at home I observe our dog’s paws ticking quickly as he scurries across our wooden kitchen floor. The squeaking of his dog toys is shrilling. My brother drives up our street in his jeep. I can tell it’s him because of his compressed-sounding engine. My mom tries to keep the dog under control as I hear her hands flying across her laptop’s keyboard. Every so often her cell phone plays the “New York New York” song probably waiting to give an updated score of the Yankee game. Oh, that’s probably my mom calling me for a favor.

Murch:
Murch is right in saying that sound is one of the most important out of all the senses.  However, he makes it sound like sight is a bad thing and doesn't deserve to be as important as it is, and this is where I disagree.  His talk of sound owning the throne was a bit too dramatic, but despite my favor for sight I do think that sound should be more appreciated.  Their importance should be equal.  Sounds can be very beautiful and what you can do with them is unlimited but the same thing goes for sight and what you can see and observe.  When it comes to a film I would say that I think that sound and sight work off each other. At first, I'd say that sound does not make a movie more than sight, but if I think about it I do not care for silent films as much because there is no sound...at least there is no talking, but there is boring music (No offense to silent films). 

Our group's recordings of sound seemed to go rather well.  While doing the assignment, we were able to pay close attention to the sounds and thought about what else they could possibly sound like.  We did have trouble putting it back on the tape though.  That's always an issue...Aside from the issues, it was neat to see that each group had a very different variety of sounds.  No groups sets of sound sounded all that similar.

Moritz:
I really don’t have much to say about Moritz’s article, but I particularly liked the information given for Walther Ruttmann. His ideas for what to do with a film sounded beautiful. The ideas that these artists like Ruttmann or Eggeling come up with for how to make a film are phenomenal. I really like the mention of Ruttmann’s use of picture and the animation cut outs. I think it would be cool to see the type of filmmaking this article discusses. It would have been really fascinating to watch how these famous names made their films.