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When I heard about the prompt, I thought about a story I read long ago. A famous Chinese MC told the interviewer that he enjoys listening to “sounds”, like the sound of nature, ambient sound, and languages. He once had a recorder in his pocket and recorded his whole day. A younger colleague tokes his advice and did the same thing. After he went back and listened to his recording, he cried. I didn’t understand the exact reason why, but I guess it is that he was able to “see” his whole day in an objective way, feel how is his day has really been, and notice those sounds he has never focused on before. This story has long been stored at the back of my head and changing the way I think about sound. So, I wanted to record things in an unconscious way. I toke my phone in a phone case with stripes and let it hang on my body in the air. I went to lunch, went to dinner and went to paint and went to wash.
After the first few recordings, I thought the sounds are pretty bad since the phone is not professional enough to only record things I wanted to record. So, I went back and recorded a few more scenarios, then tried to cut out the informational pieces and arrange them chronologically as they would have happened in one day. There are sounds like me cleaning my brushes, brushing my teeth, and stirring eggs…
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