doors

This is the sound of a door opening into the Divinity school. The abrupt manner in which it is opened captures the cacophonous sound, which people might perceive in various ways. The doors of the church, like the doors of the hospital, carry much weight. In the church, doors can keep people in and keep people out. In the hospital, the opening of a door can mean invasion, uncertainty, and fear for both the patient waiting on the other side and the person opening it. With the opening of both doors, however, there is an invitation to mutual vulnerability. It is our hope that the opening of doors in hospital might take on a bit more of this invitation.

Sound recording from the front doors of West Village, a space utilized for dining and studying at Georgia Institute of Technology, as students walked in and out of the building on a Monday afternoon. Recorded with an iPhone 7.

Sound recording from the lobby of Georgia Tech's Love Manufacturing Building, a multipurpose space filled with both labs and lecture halls, around midday on Friday, just after a class change, where many students and faculty were moving through the space. Recorded on a Google Pixel 2. 

Elevator ride up in a dorm elevator. Elevator goes up three floors. Two dinging noises occur when the elevator goes up the first two floors and a final different dinging noise occurs as the elevator doors open. Recorded on a Zoom H1 recorder.

Vivid sounds of the door unlocking, entering, and locking the door of apartment 122. Recorded on a ZOOM H4 recorder.

Sound recorded in the residential housing (Rhoads) for students at Virginia Commonwealth University. The recording starts out with turning the doorknob to the door and while the door opens it also makes a loud squeaking noise. You can also hear my roommate say, "Ahhhh.." in the background as well as he was talking to someone on his computer. Recorded using a Zoom H1 audio recording device in stereo recording mode.

Sound clip of someone knocking on a door. Recorded on a Zoom Recorder.