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Sorry it’s so quiet, I couldn’t figure out how to make it any louder.
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Alex Duncker commented on the post, Assignment #5, on the site Acoustemologies
“I really enjoyed the layout of your blog post and I like the fact that you involved your major in your study. Having studied the brain and having a topic that dips into similar themes, I found your analysis of the […]
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Alex Duncker commented on the post, The Political Hip Hop Sub-genre, on the site Acoustemologies
“This is a extremely relative topic to current events. For the past few weeks it has been impossible to log onto social media without seeing artists like Beyonce and Macklemore speaking out in support of marriage […]
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Alex Duncker commented on the post, Assignment 4, on the site Acoustemologies
“When I think if meditation, I think of a practice that involves all faculties simultaneously in order to achieve an awakened or aware state. Can a meditative state be achieved through listening to sound alone?
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The sounds that define the religio-culture of Hinduism can be divided into two distinct categories: mantras or chanting and prayers songs known as bhajan. Both are vocal expressions employed to achieve similar […]
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The sounds that define the religio-culture of Hinduism can be divided into two distinct categories: mantras or chanting and prayers songs known as bhajan. Both are vocal expressions employed to achieve similar […]
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Alex Duncker commented on the post, In and Out of Listening, on the site Acoustemologies
“I found your passage about the highlighter on paper especially fascinating. You explained the urge to find the source of a sound and confirm it visually very well. I can think of many times when I’ve had similar […]
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Alex Duncker commented on the post, A Day in the Life of Music, on the site Acoustemologies
“I think your claim that college is primarily a visual experience is really interesting. For me, education is very auditory. I find what a teacher or professor says is always more helpful than what they write or […]
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Alex Duncker commented on the post, The Unheard Sounds, on the site Acoustemologies
“I definitely related to you when you talked about the noises of food, especially your roommate eating an apple. I often find that I hear the sound of other people eating, but rarely hear the sounds I make eating. […]
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I sat down last Sunday to brainstorm ideas for this assignment and found myself distracted by the chatter in the hallway, the endless opening and closing of doors, a bass thumping somewhere beneath me and the […]
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Alex Duncker commented on the post, The Soundtrack of Slavery, on the site Acoustemologies
“I love the song you included. I listened to it and reread your description of the soundscape and it made the whole scenario more vivid and powerful. I can hear the hardships of slave life in the song. However I […]
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Alex Duncker commented on the post, Sounds of The Narrative Life of Fredrick Douglass, on the site Acoustemologies
“I focused on the same scene as you and struggled to define the layered sounds of city life. You have accomplished that task beautifully. I heard the city and the life it contains so clearly in your words. In […]
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A Synopsis of Chapters VI and VII of The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass
The scene opens in a townhouse in Baltimore. The ambient noises of daily life outside are occasionally heard softly. Mrs. Auld […]
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