I first looked around for sounds on the same floor of our classroom. As soon as I went into the same hallway as the elevators, I immediately heard the sound of a generator making noise behind a door and decided to record it. Just afterwards, I heard the water fountain’s machine turn on and recorded that as well.

During this activity, I listened carefully to all the sounds around me, much more than I would have otherwise. As I walked around campus, I had my eyes and ears open to investigate what I could capture. I recorded all sorts of sounds from a locker opening and closing, to newspapers being picked from a stand, to steps in an echoey stairway, to crinkle of a chips bag.

One of my personal favorites of the sounds I recorded, and an unusual one too, came from a vending machine. But it wasn’t something dispensing, or the opening of the little gate, but instead the sound of the eject button being pushed. It had sounded very clear and crisp, and I believe one could use it to represent another object.