A response to assignment 1a

The main thing that I learned from this first assignment, aside from making sure there are no time code breaks in the tape, was sound without the presence of sight can be interestingly difficult to pinpoint at times. I understood that we often do overlook sounds and I wasn't necessarily surprised to hear the many sounds in the background that I did when I truly sat and listened, but listening to sounds again without images did allow me to hear the sounds in a new way. For example, there is a sound that was recorded by my group of a pen scraping over a plastic chair. The resulting sound though sounds at times like a zipper. As I am finding out now with project 1b, this ambiguity of sound can come in handy when creating not just soundscapes with no images, but also film that combines both sound and image.