'S' Sounds
Audio recording of the siren test at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Recorded from the fifth story of Brandt hall out of my dorm room window. Recording taken on an iPhone 7.
Sound Recording of Richmond Police cars driving on Belvidere street, heading towards the exits of 95 & 64, where Belvidere runs into Chamberlayne. Recorded from the fourth floor, located on the east side of the building approximately at 3:19 am. Recorded with a H1 Handy Recorder. Sirens frequently happens between 1am and 5am. Usually wakes me up at an unusual hour.
This is a sound recording of someone sitting down, preparing to study on the third floor of West Village Dining near the Starbucks, on a Saturday at 11:00 am. Recorded with an iPhone 6. The sound of the chair screeching across the floor along with the person making contact with the chair is heard, as that is the main focus of the audio. In the background there are faint sounds of the music from the Starbucks as well the person making contact with the table, by placing items on it and adjusting... Read More
A recording of an egg cooking on a hot frying pan laced with oil.
This is a sound recording of a skateboarder doing a powerslide (moving the board so that the wheels are facing the direction perpendicular to that which they normally face and sliding) on an abandoned tennis court. The skateboarder depicted does one big powerslide then two smaller ones to stop. Recorded on an iPhone 6.
Virginia Beach skateboarder on a ramp at a local surf shop. The metal clink heard in the recording is the skateboard hitting the coping of the ramp and the more fluid sound that is audible is the the skateboarder dropping in on the ramp. Recorded on an iPhone 6s.
Juxtaposition of two different audience responses to slam poetry: snapping and clapping. Lily Myers' poem "Shrinking Women" at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational at Wesleyan University.
A Duke University student slurping down a Hello Kitty Jelly handed out by the Audiovisuality course professor, standing outside the Smith Warehouse.
This sound is a pet peeve of mine, I hate this sound and when people do it in a public and relatively quiet place, like the movies or a library.
The recording is a made on a man slurping and munching thin glass noodles. Recording was done on a Zoom H4N.
A small bell being rung by hand repeatedly. You can hear the falter in the hand movements after a couple of seconds into the recording. Recording done on a Zoom H1N.
Sound recording of the small rain on large quad, with the recording zoom close to a puddle. Sound of continuous random rain drops on the puddle is surrounded by the background raining sound. Recorded on a Zoom H4N.