Understanding Sound

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Understanding Sound
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• Email 3-5 sentence answers to gtg961u_at_mail.gatech.
  edu with mobiledesign quiz 01 in subject
• How are bits used in the Perception of Sound
• How does understanding the way sound operates
  apply to film according to Dykhoff
• Name three technologies that Bull uses as
  examples of privatized spaces
• Name a reason Bull cites that people seek to
  privatize their spaces
• What is the aural solipsism of the iPod

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Brains and Sound

• Hearing is only part of the way that we analyze
  sound
• Deaf woman in London Symphonic Orchestra
• Digital Analogy for human perception
• 11 Mbits per second 100 K devoted to sound
• Only pay attention to 16-40 bits per second

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Sound Upon Brain

• Our brains fill in the majority of the
  information we believe we are experiencing
• Dykhoff argues that this imagination provides
  access to emotional impact
• Film often use sounds for psychological effect

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Mediatized Space

• Daily life is increasingly mediated by a
  multitude of mechanically reproduced sounds
• Industrial sound (air conditioners, traffic,etc.)
  is imposed upon us
• Have many periods of time filled with personal
  music

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Mobile Bubbles of Sound

• "Being inside my car is like, this is my little
  world, its my car, its getting away from work,
  any hassles I've gotits an opportunity for me to
  let my mind focus on all sorts of different
  things, I might be thinking about work, I might
  be thinking about relationships, I might be
  thinking about family. Its because I'm in my own
  little bubble, in my car that's an environment
  and I'm in complete control of all the
  distractions around me. (Lucy)
• Portable audio is similar in nature

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Choosing our Environments

• Music is more controllable than conversation
• Intimate with our personal sound library/ distant
  with our environment
• Does the street conform to what I want it to be
  as I walk through it using my iPod?
• Solitariness is both imposed and chosen

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The Walkman

• Reason online No longer forced to listen to
  Stayin Alive, Disco Duck or whatever else
  someone nearby wanted to hear
• Is it about walking, portability, mobility of our
  music soundtrack?
• Is it about exclusion of other sounds?

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Public Privacy

• The outside world is mitigated through sound
• We distance ourselves from projecting into the
  world
• It is an individualistic reclamation of space