Almost every morning, I wake up with the sound of cars passing by my window and the song of birds outside. They are the most precise wake-up alarm clocks for me on weekdays. When I am boring having nothing to do, I’d like to hear the different kinds of sound around me. The sound of the wind passing through the leaves are slightly different depending on seasons. In the summer, the breeze is gentle. When it blows through the leaves, its sound is amazing just like the wind chime which slowly flows into your ears like clear streams. I’d like to seat near my windows looking at the tree outside. When the breeze blows, the leaves are dancing with the beautiful music produced by themselves. The shadow of the tree also dances for them. It is a perfect performance for our summer days. In the winter, the tree becomes the battleground for wind and dried leaves. When the cold wind hits the tree, I can hear the cry and shout of the leaves. The branches are shaking intensely protecting their friends —- leaves. The cold wind seems laugh at the dried leaves for their stubborn. It is a sad story for our winter days.
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Sonic example
The appropriate sound level of music is not easy to calibrate. Some songs sound best when they are played at full volume, while other songs are meant to be played softly with just the right amount of sound. We’ve all been in an elevator with someone who plays music through their headphones like they’ve already gone deaf, and more often than not, it becomes a nuisance. But are they purposely playing the music loudly because they like the music loud, or is that music simply meant – through its creation – to be just as loud. After listening to the album version, however, I realized that much of what I liked about the song came from the kind of bad, buzzy recording quality of the youtube version. While I suppose some might argue that the studio version, what the artist intended you to hear, should be the best version, I disagree and think that sometimes a live version or remix might make the song better even if it is worse “quality”.Sound production didn’t take over the tension/release role in pop songs overnight. Over the last couple of decades, there has been a ‘crossfade’ between tonal functions and sonic functions.As sound production became more and more dominant in shaping the musical roller coaster in pop songs, the role of tonal functions was gradually weakened. I can’t identify a specific turning point, but I can point to specific songs and albums that triggered my awareness of this process.
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growing in the street with that free space and the joy of life , I saw and participated in group musical in my country Togo, West Africa . Back in the days , we didn’t have digital instruments to create our music or record what we have been doing but here is what and how we used to make things interesting to our audience. Everything that we were using was hand made .For example to create the sound we used empty pots with sticks . We used wood with cord to make guitars . With such things we make music for people with a good ambience and the songs that we were singing was memorised . It was true we didn’t have chances to get digital tools but the kind of music that we were make was pure and understandable . some youths have even convert the way we were doing our songs with digital called Afrobeat . In that , the beats sound is mix with jazz , blues, techno , dancehall .
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This example is interesting because this is like my routine. Every day I wake up with noise such as the sound of traffic, chrim, and cell phone alerts. If we go outside there is a lot of noise in our society that we can hear. Hearing is unconscious. The sounders just from outside come to our ears. However, it is different to listening. After listening to “Ways of Hearing”, I have started to consider what kind of sounds that we can hear and listen to. Most times people may just hear something, and they do not listen. When we hear our brains do not work, they just hear without thinking. In addition, when people listen to something, it is conscious. We do not want to hear the noise, and we separate from the reality. We feel we are safe but we are not. If we are trying to listen to these noises, maybe it is different, they are like music. They are much better than wearing headphones to listen to noise music. All sound is noise, all sounds from noise, e, the thing is what matters is the attitude people adopt to listen to it.
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Billie Eilish – when the party’s over (Live From The Grammys)
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I tried to just upload the link only but I am not that really well good at tech so I came out with the entire video. By all the way Billie live performance is one of rarely performances which I really saw the way digital has took over of how manageable is the time and the space accordant to how the sound can be held at one place for a specific event . As it is described in the ways of hearing “episode 1 &2 ” of Krukowski , I felt like here in this video , the sound which is very very loud was live indoor and at the same time available to those who are in front of their screens . The digital time travels beyond our perspective of hearing and living the past in the present . For example this video was done couple months ago but it is still available to who want it . What you just have Ito do is to search .
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Sonic Example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40ushYAaYA
How does music affect our lives? Music affects our lives either way negatively or positively. meanwhile, you can hear a song that introduces how our lives are bad, and when cannot live lyrics made you get the worst feelings you have ever faced, that often happens. On the other side, music impact our lives positively through empowering your strength, relieving from stress or pain. Sometimes you can have a song that expresses what you feel exactly. My favorite song in my life is “singin’ in the rain” from the movie “singin’ in the rain” actually all songs in this movie are amazing, especially this song. I watched this song with my dad when I was 6. My dad recorded this movie on the videotape. I adore this song because the song has full of happiness through the lyrics, melody, the actor’s performance, and dancing in the rain. The first meaning of happiness for me was in this song, even though I did not recognize what does love mean or experiences it before. The song has become a hit in the classic musical movies gene kelly’s performance became popular. Kelly was simplified in love so he sings I’m singin’ in the rain lyrics has a powerful meaning of happiness. I listen to this song daily. It means for me pure love, and happiness, moreover the melody of the song gives me serenity. The slow melody makes you calm and quiet. In contrast, the melody of a modern song brings nervousness and stress. You lose your inner peace with modern songs. according to Radiotopia’s first showcase series,” ways of hearing” by Krukowski said digital audio changes our perception and employs a different sense of time, space, and love. in this song, “singin’ in the rain” I used to listen to this song in my Walkman and then in my CD player, later on, I downloaded in my mp3. now I have this song in my song playlist on my phone. This song influences my life from an early age to now. this intro of the song “singing in the rain” lyrics.
Just singin’ in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I’m happy again.
I’m laughing at clouds.
So dark up above,
The sun’s in my heart
And I’m ready for love.
Sonic Example #1
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ET’s Keltie Knight spoke with the GRAMMY nominee ahead of the 62nd GRAMMY Awards on Sunday. #GRAMMYs Exclusives from #ETonline : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv
The first episode of Ways of Hearing talked about how digital time lags behind real time due to latency. The example they use is of a baseball game on announcer on the radio that is out of sync with the game on the TV because the TV had switched from analog to digital transmission. This made me think of how award shows censor accidental cursing on live television. At the Grammy Awards earlier this year, singer Arianna Grande accidentally cursed during a live interview, which is prohibited on most television networks. Luckily, due to digital being a few seconds behind real time, the network was able to cover the curses with bleep noises. I used to ask my parents how the Grammys could censor mishaps if they were happening live, and they told me that TV is behind, so they use that time to cover mistakes. This podcast showed me that digital made that easier, if not allowing it to be possible at all.
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-Technology has changed the way we think and changed our daily lives for many individuals. For example, EarPods and iPhones are really popular nowadays. It’s whatever individuals should have as their daily life accessories and it’s an item that nobody can’t live without. EarPods are a way of hearing music that we want to listen to and its also used as a personal bubble were we tent to only want to listen to what we want and block the sounds that sounding us like you see on NYC subways 99.9% of the passengers will have EarPods on or anything type of headphones to fit in there one bubble. Sound such as music controls our daily life and our daily habit.
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Songs are always friendly to our moods. If we feel sad we are looking for a song, and at the beginning of the love stories we listen to the songs, or until we feel bored we play songs to improve the mood. One of the songs closest to my heart is fly me to the moon by singer Frank Sinatra, this song never fails to change my mood. Although remastered the song in 2009, the live version in 1965 is the best for me. Frank’s pure voice with live music is another experience. When someone asks me about a good song, I always recommend those songs at the top of the list. This song is considered a jazz classic and music in general. On the other hand, songs are part of the culture. And the development of music is linked to the development taking place in the world. The musical instruments differed from the old until it reached what it is now. Therefore, music is part of the human personality and evidence of time.
Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon (Live At The Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO/1965)
Frank Sinatra performing “Fly Me To The Moon,” recorded live in 1965 at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis, MO.
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As a sonic example, I picked the video, where just based on the visual part, we can not ostensibly see anything really special. But if we turn on the sound of the video, we can hear the clapping of people, which pay the tribute to all the essential workers, especially medical workers in New York City during the Corona-virus pandemic. I think that even the small, personal gadget like is headsets and listening to some music could manipulate all perception of walking down the street and steal from us such a surreal moment when all the people were connected by the current situation and were captured in the presence. Probably each of us, who heard that clapping, realized that we are all here for each other and we felt the connection with strangers, which is so rare nowadays. It was a scary time, especially at the beginning of the pandemic, when nobody knew what is going to happen next. But at that time, we were all together showing and sharing compassion, humbleness, and appreciation to those, who were risking their own life every single day. This is probably an extreme example of the possible manipulation of the moment by the different sounds coming into our ears. But maybe it is a good example to better realize, how differently we can see the world by spacing out from the presence by using modern technology in general.
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