Noticing: 

Audio file:

Audio and photograph – final submission:

In total, I have recorded two pieces of audio in Fawkner park as several games were happening at the same time but different sports. The first recording was men’s sports game and the second recording was women’s sports game. Fawkner park isn’t as manifold as Glenferrie road, especially the time we went there was the busiest time of the Glenferrie road (3:30 in the afternoon). When I started to record and taking photos was around 6:30 PM at night which sun has sat already, and the environment was very simple with lots of repetition of sounds.The biggest difference between what I thought I might be seeing in Fawkner park to what I actually see is, the sound finish at the moment it comes out. If I weren’t filming with a VCR, then a sound would be impossible to be recorded in the photographic form. There were few from my list that I couldn’t record the moment with a camera such as yelling, shouting, swearing, etc. these aren’t like running, or clapping hands are movements with sound, but yelling all you can hear is a noise unless I can photograph them right in front of them. Moreover, Fawkner park is not as

The biggest difference between what I thought I might be seeing in Fawkner park to what I actually see is, the sound finish at the moment it comes out. If I weren’t filming with a VCR, then a sound would be impossible to be recorded in the photographic form. There were few from my list that I couldn’t record the moment with a camera such as yelling, shouting, swearing, etc. these aren’t like running, or clapping hands are movements with sound, but yelling all you can hear is a noise unless I can photograph them right in front of them. Other than verbally spoken cannot be photographed, there was one more thing that I found difficult to capture, for example, I heard a bird during I record, but when I lifted my head up to look for it there was just a dark sky which there was nowhere I can see a bird flying.

When I listen back to the recording, the first thing I noticed is the conversation happening near me. It was the only sound that came out at the same volume level as the sports game, but the people chatting were standing much nearer to me than the actual sports game. This is telling me again how big the sound was coming from the sports game, and how quiet is the Fawkner park without the sports game.

When I went back home and listened to the recording for the second time, there was another thing I found interested was the content of the conversation that I have recorded. Opposite to what I expected, this group of people chatting near me was waiting beside the oval for their games, but what I heard from their conversation was nothing about the sports game, they seemed to be relaxing, chilling out and no one appeared to be worried about the up coming game. When I listened carefully, I heard both the conversation and the yelling from the games, and the atmosphere of this conversation became a huge contrast with the players in the games.

We picked up quite similar things in each other’s place, but he noticed there was music in most of the shops at the beginning of his recording and then when he went back to take photos after played back the recording, he actually found the speakers were hanging outside of the shop/ restaurant. Honestly, I have never noticed the change of music while walking down and up Glenferrie road every day. There was always too much going on at the same time each day which I am already being used to the rich layers of sound, so what I always did when I passed by is that I always had my earphone, so I have never paid attention to the sound of Glenferrie road.