Chion Reading

After reading this article, I feel as though I have a better understanding of our soundscapes on the animation project. In this article, he states that the ear analyzes, processes, and synthesizes faster than the eye. I felt that this was true in the fact that the sounds that we added to our animation project is what caught my attention first. This theory was also prevalent to the other projects that I watched on Thursday as well. For example the project Army Vs. Bear, we hear the loud screaming music, and once our brains have established those sounds, we then move into understanding the moving images. If they had added a different soundtrack to their project, it probably would have created a completely different overall mood. Another section of the article that caught my attention was how sound is sustained. He states that a smooth and continuous sound is less "animating" than an uneven or fluttering one. This is true once again in the above example in the fact that the sounds that they used caused a more tense and immediate focusing of attention on the image.