Thursday, September 3, 2009

Sensory Writing: Hearing

http://margaretnoble.net/blog/phonurgia-nova-awards-2009/

I was sitting here listening to the different sounds on the website our teacher told us to go on. I listened to about eight different sounds but none seem to interest me except for the very last one. It had so many different sounds that consisted of so many contrastive things. The first sound i got wind of was a irgghhh irgghhh like a cricket chirping. The next thing I picked up from the noises was a "Buhh Boom," as if something was transforming into something evil. It was a blast like a meteor had just landed hard on the Earth. Then i heard a twisted kind of sound like aliens were taking over the world. A sound that contained "Wrr Wrr" noises going from being loud then to where you couldn't hear it. There was somewhat high pitched singing like "Haa Haa," in the background as if people were singing opera. Also, I heard dials that you would hear on a machine or phone like "dina nuna nun," but it wasn't normal sounding it was a bit off tune like some sort of cartoon. After that I gathered a soft song that played like a violen mixed in with a thump that had a rhythm to it like "tun na nun na nun." Another thing I heard was soft hums like "Hmmm Hmm," coming from a lady with a low voice. When that was finished playing there was a tute from a train that sounded something like "Urrhhhh!" In between the different sounds were spaces where nothing played at all. The sounds I heard were so unique because I had never heard those specific sounds put together as one.

2 comments:

jasmine D.C (shorty) said...

the discription that really captured my attention was when she put the discripion of the lady saying hmmm hmmm. it captured my attention because i could definatly imagine a lady doing that. she discribed her sound as random with cricket noises and humming with the sound buh boom, she said that it was sort of high pith at some notes. and that there were some places were there was no sound at all. she doesnt really need to add more discription because she got all the notes i heard with great discription.

Diana--HTHMA said...

Ashley, You did a great job of describing the sounds and trying imitate them (onomatopoeia). You really did focus on the sounds. I would work alongside a thesaurus to try and find richer words in order to enhance your writing. 18.5/20--dcs