Project 1 Assignment

As I sit on my bed, I heard sounds that I associate with the morning. My roommates were in their rooms up and ready for the day, or just waking up. They were closing and opening drawers, which sounded like a light slam or scrap. I also heard their beds and chairs creaking and squeaking as they shift on them. Along with the sounds of my awaken roommates, I heard things outside my window. There were a couple of birds sing outside but they sounded a bit distant and far away. Despite not hearing their song clearly, I thought it was the most beautiful sound I heard today. It was very soft and almost fragile like glass. It felt like the music would shatter with one loud sound. After the birds stopped sing, I heard the sound of a truck warning pedestrians that it was backing up. It was very loud high pitch beeps that happened ever second as the truck was backing up. I think the sound of the beeping truck came from the construction site of Anne Arundel hall, which means it might have been the farthest sound I heard today. I think that means that the truck was two or three miles away from me. Along with the truck, I heard cars driving by the streets around the Warning Common area and maybe on Point Lookout road. The sound of cars driving down and up the street was soft but not as soft as the birds singing. It sounded like a gust of wind. Except maybe lower and softer. I think I heard in total six cars driving around St. Mary’s College.

Other sounds I heard within the five minutes were sounds that I learned to ignore. I heard the loud beep of the scanner outside the building follow by the sound of the door unlocking. The sound of the door unlocking sounds very mechanical and it echoes in the staircase outside our apartment. I could also here the frame of the building creaking and cracking; it sounded like the building was groaning or popping stiff joints. For a minute, everything outside my room was silent. I started to notice the hum of my laptop fan cooling my computer down. It was a low and almost quiet sound, which made it the softest sound I heard during the five minutes. As I was listening to the computer, my stomach made a loud growl. It was louder compared to the other sounds I heard during the five minutes. It sounds wet and organic, which made it the ugliest sound. My stomach made that sound a couple times before it went silent during the final few minutes. The final few sounds I heard before my phone went off were one of my three roommates chuckling in her room and my legs moving against the fabric of the bedding. I heard around eight mechanical sounds and four human voices. The only thing I would change from the soundscape would be my stomach growling and the harsh beeps of the truck. Those sounds interfered with the soothing sounds of the morning.