From Ingrid’s lecture on the 16th, I find one of the most interesting parts mentioned to be our nature of hearing which is binaural and how our minds process sound in a 3D image.

I am considering recording a sound experiment and may use this technique if it is available to me. Currently, I have booked out multiple microphones and am planning to use them in an inaccurate way of creating a few stereo recordings, however it may make more sense to record the piece using a binaural microphone as the polar patterns of the microphones are conventional and I have not accounted wether their phasing will be similar to human hearing.

I Think one of the most interesting parts of this lecture was the sonic Rorschach test. Everyone in the room heard different things throughout the test. It shows how psychoacoustics really does play a massive roll and shows not all minds process sound the same way at all. I am interested in this approach as thinking of sound pieces as ways to learn about my own listening and psychoacoustics as well as others, gathering data about the human condition’s relationship with sound. It seems Alvin Lucier is very much concerned with this practice and I find his work particularly educational yet also entertaining. I want to further research his work and see if there are particular pieces to form a base for my own piece.