Listening Questions

1.What is your earliest memory of sound? How do you feel about it now?
My earliest memory of sound would have to be one of those toy piano I used to carry with
me all the time.

2. When do you notice your breath?
When i am running or working out

3. What is attention?
Attention is all about focusing and concentration

4. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece based on breath rhythms?
Yes

5. What sound reminds you of home?
My dog

6. Do you listen for sound in your dreams? What do you hear? How does it
affect you?
Sometimes but most of the conversations are not clear and i tend to forget them the next day

7. The distinguished historian, Wiliam H. McNeil, has recently argued in his
book Keeping Together in Time that "coordinated rhythmical activity is
fundamental to life in society."
Can you imagine tracking a rhythm pattern in your daily life and writing about
it?
Sure

8. Can you imagine rhythm pattern for the rhythm circle with your own form of
notation?
No not really

9. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece for voices using attention
patterns?
No that is not quite possible

10. What is sound?
This is a broad question, I think could be whatever you want, it is everywhere.

11. What is listening?
It requires your full-attention when listening, quite different from hearing

12. What action(s) is usually synchronized with sound?

13. When do you feel sound in your body?
When i am singing

14. What sound fascinates you?
running water

15. What is a soundscape?
A sound is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive
environment.

16. What are you hearing right now? How is it changing?
I am hearing the sound of traffic now

17. How many sounds can you hear all at once?
I am not sure, depending on the range of sounds

18. How far can you hear sounds?
I wonder too
19. Are you sure that you are hearing every thing that is to hear?
I dont think so, its quite impossible to hear everything

20. What more could you hear if you had bigger ears? (or smaller)
I wish i could hear the animals talking

21. Can you hear more sounds if you are quiet? How many more?
Ya i think i could hear a few more

22. How long can you listen?
Not very long, I am not very good at focusing

23. When are you not listening?
When im sleeping

24. Can you not listen when something is sounding?
Yes then you are just ignoring it

25. Try not listen to anything. What happens?
Its difficult

26. How can you not listen if your ears never close?
You just change the focus to somethin else

27. What meaning does any sound have for you?
Not sure

28. What is favourite sound? How is it made? When can you hear it? Are you
hearing it now?
My favorite sound would be playing with snowballs, when you are throwing snowballs really
hard at your friends.

29. What is the soundscape of the space you are now occupying?
not sure

30. How is the soundscape shaped? or what makes a soundscape?

31. What is the soundscape of your neighborhood?
The soundscape of my neighborhood mostly comprises traffics

32. What is the soundscape of your city?
The soundscape of my city is very quiet and peaceful.

33. How many different soundscapes can you imagine?
infinite

34. What would you like to have in your own soundscape?
running water

35. What would you record to represent your soundscape?
My own voice

36. What sound makes you speculative?
dont really know

37. What sounds gives you chills?
Any sound that is unexpected

38. What sound ruffles your scalp?
high pitched screaming

39. What sound changes your breathing?
when doing excercise

40. What sound would you like whispered in your ear?
my bf's voice