Author: Han Wen
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Audio Structure and Creative Design
At this stage, I planned the overall structure of the audio paper to clearly show how broadcast gymnastics functions as a disciplinary soundscape. The audio lasts about 10 minutes and is divided into several sections: introduction, music and command analysis, collective behavior discussion, individual autonomy, and memory/cultural reflections. To help listeners experience the soundscape, I…
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Soundscape Analysis
Broadcast gymnastics is a typical example of a disciplinary soundscape because it combines music, voice commands, and synchronized movements to directly influence students’ bodies and behaviour. At a fixed time every day, the broadcast plays, and students line up neatly, following the rhythm and commands. The music and voice create a strict time and rhythm…
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Using Microphones in My Practice
In my sound work, microphones are very important. A microphone captures sound and turns it into a signal that can be recorded, processed, or amplified. It doesn’t just record— it also shapes how we hear and feel the sound. I use microphones to capture natural sounds and created sounds. I also like to use special…
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Exploring Sound Synthesis with Pure Data
Recently, I’ve been learning Pure Data and Bela, and trying to combine them to build my own noise box. The whole process is new but exciting to me, and it makes me gradually understand the structure and logic behind the world of sound. I started by designing the system on the Pure Data side. My…
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Mixing and Delivering a Film
After reading the chapter “Mixing and Delivering a Film” in Tim Harrison’s Sound Design for Film, I gained a deeper understanding of the film sound mixing process. Mixing is not just a technical task — it’s a creative decision-making process about how a story should be heard. The director, producer, sound designer, and re-recording mixer…
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Sound Design in
Under the Skin Under the Skin is not just a visually interesting movie—its sound design is also very strong. The music is especially important. It doesn’t just set the mood; it shows the characters’ inner feelings and works with the images to tell the story. The movie uses ambient sounds, like city noise, office whispers,…
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Broadcast Gymnastics and Foucault’s Discipline
During my exploration of broadcast gymnastics, I found that Michel Foucault’s theory of discipline can explain this well. Foucault says: “Power is exercised rather than possessed; it circulates through techniques, practices, and routines that organize everyday life” (Discipline and Punish, 1977). This means power is not just directly imposed, but works slowly through daily actions,…
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Topic Selection
When I first started thinking about the topic for my audio paper, I wanted to explore “noise”—the everyday sounds that are ignored, chaotic, or harsh. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this topic was too abstract. It was hard to find a clear focus, and I couldn’t easily connect…
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Ambience and Spatial Design: Sonic World of Mon Oncle
Although the rhythm of actions is central in this Mon Oncle clip, the ambience is equally important in shaping the overall atmosphere. Tati’s visual world is usually clean, structured, and uncluttered, and he avoids dense or noisy environmental layers. For this reason, my approach to the ambience needed to strike a balance between “being present”…
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Maps as Sonic Fictions
ImaginationA giant tree-like space: the trunk is time, and the branches are your past, present, and future. You can travel to each moment of your life, listening to whispers of memory, the faint light of the future, and possible sounds. StructureTrunk: The flow of time, slow and deep, connecting all nodes.Branches: Childhood (laughter and cicadas),…