Hearing

Before we began walking as a group we took a few minutes to discuss what we thought we would hear during the Soundwalk. We assumed that we would be hearing the buzzing of busy Toronto streets, lots of cars and people continuing on their daily routines in the midst of Chinatown. We anticipated music coming from stores, the occasional ringing of a telephone and possibly an emergency vehicle alarm, but we didn’t know if all of these elements would be heard during our walk. We do not feel that the…

Writing for me is a biological process. This is the best analogy I can think of for why and how I write. Initially there is the basic autonomic writing, that inhales like a thought and exhales like a note: “take out the trash” or “buy milk and butter”. Then there is the slightly more complicated procedure of writing that is intended to communicate with others. This becomes somatic rather than autonomic. It requires that your eyes respond to what you have seen, and your ears to what you have…

There are unique auditory processes that are very important to help the listener deal with simultaneous, often competing audio signals or sources such as competing speakers or musical instruments/instrumental sections within an orchestra. To be able to distinguish the individual sounds and more importantly, the individual superimposed vibrations travelling to the listener, the auditory system, and the architecturally designed environments, have specific methods that allow the listeners ears to…

With music, you experience something that is encoded into our bodies and our brain. It goes directly to a part of the brain that stimulates our emotions. Music starts affecting humans at an early time. The human fetus begins to hear when they are 17 to 18 weeks old. Music is energy. People that can not hear can still feel the music with vibrations. Every object has the capacity to send waves or vibrations. Vibrations make the music go into the brain by sending waves. An electrical charge…

actually talking and that is “effective listening”. This type of listening ensures we understand the client and helps rectify conflict. Many people do not think they need to improve their listening skills, but they do. Effective listening and hearing is not the same thing. If you have really demonstrated effective listening, you should almost be able to create yourself a “mental picture” of the message the client is trying to send. If we need to listen for long periods of time we need to…

place is the different experiences we all have had in our lives and the places where we are from. One of the similarities is that we all have a sense place, even though our places different. Picking the images for the song did not contribute to me hearing or seeing the music differently. I think one of the main reasons for this is because I have heard the song many times, so I already had those preset images in my head. It was very interesting to see my partner pick out images because he picked…

The purpose of our senses has to do with how our brain works with our body. All the senses in our body are created from the information that goes into the brain. The deeper view on the senses is perception. It creates a much bigger picture on how we view our five sense. The way that we perceive why we do what we do is perspective. All these objectives go with what we do in our everyday lives. As a class we all experienced these senses as we went to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and experienced…

Plugged In Every night, I help clean my house after my little sisters are asleep. Since it is late, I have to be sure not to wake them up, so I put in my headphones and listen to music. I’m just putting something away, when my parents walk in the room. I think nothing of it and keep working. I hear is a muffled voice coming from behind me, I turn around and take out my headphones, asking them to say it again. “It’s because you’re so distracted by music that it takes you so long to do anything”.…

Listening- Definition - " to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear." (Listening, n.d.) Example - I am from Washington State and in Seattle, Washington there is a street market called Pike 's Place. Inside Pike 's Place, right up front is a fish market where the employee 's behind the counter will throw large fish at the employee standing outside the display case to interact with the visiting public, sometimes to just throw back and forth, but other…

Let me introduce myself, I am George the Basset Hound and I am 44 years old (dog years that is). Today my mom Betty, and my dad Bob, are taking me on a walk to the park down the road. I heard them talking about it from across my house, but it was a little muffled due to my luxurious ears. I hear them walking down the hallway now, and I hear the sound of my leash jingling in my mom’s hand. We are walking down the side of the road now, and I hear all sorts of animals scattering in the leaves and…