Soundscape Blog Post

 Hi everyone!

Unfortunately, I am sick right now so I won't be in class to present my soundscape, but I can post and talk about it here.

Here's the link

Lucy Jones audio | Listen on audio.com  

If it doesn't work let me know!

The McLuhan quote I thought of when creating this is on page 118 where he writes:

""Speak that I may see you"

Electronically recorded voiceprints, like fingerprints, are now being accepted as evidence by some courts.

Five people were asked to say "you". One was asked to repeat it. Which two voiceprints were made by the same speaker?" 

In thinking of everyday and everything we do as music; I downloaded the last voicemail I got from my grandfather before he passed away. It'll be five years ago this Summer. Hearing his voice again is strange after helping my mom cancel his subscriptions and call everyone saved in his blackberry phone to let them know he passed. Strange because I know he'll never call and say happy birthday to me again, but I can still have his voiceprint through technology. It keeps his memory alive for me, but broadly brings up larger questions about art like does the art create a life of its own separate from the creator after it is created?

I didn't think about the legal aspect of voice recordings being accepted as evidence so much as recordings being accepted as auditory evidence by a brain. McLuhan also said that we're distrustful of sound and I think he's right, but there are emotions that topple distrust, like grief or nostalgia. But do these emotions overpower or replace distrust?

After the dial tone of his voicemail I leave my own message in response. I tried to do it in a similar style verbally, but of course it's not the same. 

In the background I added the sounds of the racks in painting storage (minus the ear-splittingly screechy ones like rack 20) in Wriston because I work there as an intern everyday Monday through Friday. It's part of my daily life and kind of sounds like mechanical waves if you rhythmically pull the racks out and push them back in. The audio ends with the sounds of the racks because I think it's peaceful.

Sorry if this made you sad/think about your loved ones who have passed away, however I hope it inspires you to tell people in your life that you love them.

Comments

  1. CJMFebruary 17, 2026 at 11:17 PM

    Hey Lucy, I'm not seeing anything to listen to on the link posted.

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