I attempted to record the interesting soundscape of the train, however my phone recording quality turned out to be unusable because few sounds could be distinguished. I then decided to settle for a room soundscape which contained various interesting elements including a TV. I tried to stir up the cats because I hear most people are indifferent to cats and so they won't be offended. For my notation system I tried to find graphical ways of representing many of the attributes of sound in a way that allows information to be precisely represented. I think that the strength of the system is that it represents volume, prominent frequency range, distance, L-R placement, and kind (eg percussive, continuous, intermittent) without resorting to messy symbols or labels. I think that its weakness is that it is hard to represent the envelope of a sound using just line thickness. Issues like these could be improved upon by using better graphics software that allows tapered lines, fading colours etc to represent smooth changes over time. This notation system would be compatible with these improvements. Perhaps I should have used height for amplitude and thickness for frequency as amplitude may be more important to present accurately.
Reference: Christian Haines. "Week 2 Audio Arts - Environment Analysis." Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 5 August 2008.
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