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For my second project i did a soundscape and took a survey. For the survey I asked two questions. These questions have to do with sight and sound, and what people think is more important to them.

First I asked people to decide which sense they would rather be BORN with. Would you rather be born deaf, or blind?

Secondly I asked them, which sense they would choose for themselves today?

I am trying to gauge what sense people feel is more important to them, and whether or not they feel having one or the other is more important during development as an infant.


Here are my results...
- Out of 26 people, 16 of them would rather be born deaf, while being able to see.
- If they had to choose today, 14 of them think sight is more important.
- 7 of them prefer being born blind with the ability to to hear.
- 9 of them choose to hear today, than to see.

It seems to me this group prefers to see than hear. Personally, I think that your ability to hear is much more important than sight, especially as an infant. But to each his own.

The second part of my project consisted on a 5.1 soundscape. I asked everyone to focus on the directionality of the sounds, and ask them to document what they heard, and where they heard it from. Also, I aksed them to put some notes down about what they thought of the soundscape. Click on the file do download it...

file:///Users/benjamingarcia/Desktop/My%20soundscapes%20Website/dfg.ac3

If you get to listen to the soundscape, try to pin point where each sound is coming from, and if you can both, follow the direction it is going, and coming from.

The soundscape consists of different sounds, see which ones you can identitfy....not everything is what it seems to be. Here is a list of what people in the class thought they heard. (only 2 of the noises were identified)

-piano
-birds
-static
-people
-city noises
-a motor