In response to the reading by Truax (on Blackboard), please answer the following questions:
1) Can you give an example of "listening in search" and "listening in readiness" in your current environment? Explain your choices.
2) What is the "keynote" sound of where you are right now? Explain your reasoning.
1. I am currently sitting in my common room in the late afternoon so there are many sounds surrounding me. However, I am easily able to determine where I am because I can hear my friends talking and doing homework fairly close to me, but I can also hear the boys playing video games at the end of the hall. I can determine that I am close to my friends and further away from the boys. I can also hear the road outside so I know that the building I am in is close to the road. Although I am not always paying attention to the other sounds that surround I can always hear the hum of the building; the sound of water running or the sound of the heat coming on. It is a comforting sound and a sound that determines I am safe and surrounded by people I know.
ReplyDelete2. The “keynote” sounds of where I am now is traffic. Because the sound of the traffic is always there, but I am not always listening to it, but when I do listen to this sounds; it’s the sound I hear most often.
1. In my dorm room, my roommate and I are both doing our homework, however, the noises that we make are slightly different. Since I am typing right now, I can hear the tapping sounds of my fingers on the keyboard. I can also tell what my roommate is doing while I type, there is the sound of paper shuffling and drawers opening; she is straightening up her desk. There are constant sounds in my room that indicate the environment I am in. One is the big clock on the wall, which ticks rather loudly if you concentrate on it enough. Another is my fridge that makes a subtle rumbling sound and some clicking sounds every few minutes.
ReplyDelete2. I am constantly hearing traffic sounds, they are incessant. I also hear the buzzing electrical noises, they go on for nearly the entire day.
1) Well now since I am trying to listen I am listening in readiness and I can hear my roommate chewing and a beeping from some alarm in the hallway, however with the pattern of these I think they were going on the whole time I was reading but since I was so focused I didn't even notice them. I'm not searching for a specific noise though, so I don't really hear anything for that in my current environment.
ReplyDelete2) Now that I pay attention I can hear my refridgerator humming, my computer harddrive working, and once again that alarm in the hallway, because these are the sounds of technology that I use everyday, so I have become so accustomed to them that I don't notice them unless I am specifically listening for them.
1) It's 10.15 in the morning and I hear the cleaning people walking in my house. Their keys make noises and their steps are heavy. I hear them opening the cupboard, taking something out or putting something in, and then walking down the hallway and opening the bathroom door. I do also hear one of my housemates opening a boy of cereal and filling it into a bowl and opening and closing the fridge.
ReplyDelete2) As keynote sounds and I can hear my computer working and myself typing on the keyboard. Furthermore, there is someone lawnmowing behind my house and I hear the ventilation in the bathroom.
1. As a I sit in my dorm room there are many sounds that I hear on a daily basis. Right now I am listening in readiness, although on an average day I probably wouldn't pay much attention to what I'm hearing right now. At this moment it is about 10:45 on a Tuesday and I can hear my roommate playing with her hair and fussing with her hairbands. I can hear her printer shuffling to print something as she types on her laptop. In the background music is playing from upstairs in Jackson and every now and then I can hear people laughing, clapping and speaking loudly. If I stay very quiet I can hear my lightbulb buzzing, which I am sure will bother me now that I have noticed it.
ReplyDelete2. Some sounds that are signs of where I am are the humming of the refrigerator on my left, and the radiator clinking every so often. Now that I pay attention to all the constant background sounds I feel as if I'm in some sort of factory. There are so many sounds coming and going that I never notice.
1. As I sit in my dorm room on my bed, I can clearly hear my fans blades cutting through the air. I can also hear myself typing on my keyboard. I can hear my friends ruffling their papers in their binder, I can hear the slamming of the door down the hallway, I can hear a car driving past my window. It is interesting the different sounds one can hear when they actually pay attention to their surroundings. To help determine what my environment I am in the chatter from my friends can be heard along with the typing on computers and ruffling of paper.
ReplyDelete2. The keynote on my everyday basis would be the humming of my fan, music from other rooms and the calming noises outside my window. I am sure there are other noises which I have not picked up on, but it being the keynote I am used to I guess I wouldn't really notice it anyways.
1. As I was reading the article I was 'listening in search' for the sounds outside the hallway trying to determine if my friend came back to the dorm and unlocked her door right next to mine, and sure enough it was her and I was able to tell the difference between the noises she made walking down the hallway and opening her door as opposed to someone else. Im 'listening in readiness' at the moment in which I can hear and am paying attention to the sound my refrigerator is making which I usually ignore and don't hear.
ReplyDelete2. The keynote sound of where I am right now is the music I put on in order to drown out the annoying sound of the refrigerator that I recently took attention too.
1. One example of listen in search in my current environment is listening to my friend talking. Even though there are other noises come from different sources (TV, other people talking), I can focus on what my friend is saying. One example of listen in readiness is the noise come from the TV. I am focusing on what my friend is saying but I can also tell what show is on the TV base on the music.
ReplyDelete2. The keynote sound of where I am right now is the sound from the lawn mower outside my window. It was annoying at first, but then after couple minutes, I kinda feel like it go away.
1) I can name many ways in which I listen in search I can sit in my dorm room while writing a paper, and know by the voices I can hear who is out in the common room. I can hear the constant buzz of my fan, and the gargle of my refrigerator. It can be astounding the things you hear when you focus on noise. The simple white noise of life begins to separate out into root sounds and rhythms. unfortunately once a person is aware of these sounds it is nearly impossible to 'unhear'
ReplyDelete2) Whenever studying I always play quiet relaxing music in order to drown out these white noises. Because of this that is the keynote sound for me currently. But places like saga, and the cafe the keynote sound is the general mix of conversation from people around the room.
I'm sitting in the lab at Houghton House approximately 24 minutes before class and as Coldplay plays in the background I keep listening out into the hallway to see if anyone is approaching the door. Each little sound made in the ceiling or the sound made by the heavy metal door closing could be the entirety of the class coming in to tell me that I didn't get my homework done in time. I know this is listening in search because I'm searching for the sounds of the rest of the class coming into the laboratory. An example of me listening in readiness would be the fact that I am merely enjoying the music in the background while focusing my attention on the tiny sounds outside in the hall.
ReplyDelete2. The keynote sound right now would be the music playing in the background because I'm listening to it at a low volume and I'm focusing on sounds behind it.
1) I hear feet walking past as I sit waiting to begin the day. I am sitting here in my room listening to the sounds as people pass by out side. I here the showers going and the people conversing about homework. As i sit her alone i realize how the world out side will always continue weather you want to be a part of it or not.this i know to be listening in search because i waiting for the nick on the door to let me be apart of the world
ReplyDelete2)The keynote sound is the silence of loneliness. It connects all of the sounds and allows all sounds to grow and become their own. it allows me to focus and it is the main sound in the romm
While I was reading over this article, it took me forever because I kept closing my eyes to see what it was like to be blind and I tried to pretend I didn’t know what certain noises were. That ended up dragging on my homework time but I definitely stepped outside of the box for a little and found this article very fascinating. The levels of listening attention are listening in search and listening readiness. Listening in search is details of greatest importance and the ability to focus on one sound and cancel out the others. In my current environment at the moment I am able to listen to my thoughts and cancel out the sounds of my roommate’s loud headphones, the air conditioning, and the faint sound of electricity in the hallways and in my room. I could choose to listen to any one of those things. However, I am choosing to focus on my thoughts at the moment. Listening readiness is built over time so sounds become familiar and can be readily identified in the background processing in the brain. One example shown is a mother sleeping will not awaken if a car drives by but will get right up if the baby is sleeping. In my current environment I am used to the air conditioning and other sounds in my room because my ears have adapted to them, the minute someone storms through the hallway whistling or singing, my brain will automatically turn away from my current focus. a better example would be at home when I sleep I generally sleep through cars passing or the dogs barking at random things but when I hear my one dog Lylah barking for some reason (it could possibly be her piercing pitch) I wake up. I sometimes see it as a motherly instinct in a strange way.
ReplyDeleteKeynote remains in the background of our attention, something we know is there but we completely ignore it unless we are trying to focus on it. If all of the sudden I wanted to hear the electrical sound, though it is a little more difficult to find, it could be done. It is not interesting enough to continuously listen to so it remains in the background. I always hear it during testing and for a moment it is a bit of a distraction because my brain is fried during most tests.