Phase 3 Debriefing

My phase 3 was executed very well. The product was two sounds that were deceptive in their origins. Many techniques were used to make it difficult for anyone to know what came from where.

In fact, traditional ideals of what "real" sounds like is what made it easy for listeners to get confused. Lets break it down:

DECEPTIVE TECHNIQUES:

1. "That sounds too good to be real" - Many people believe that recording a real life setting has a natural low-quality sound to it. The lack of static, background noise, and microphone taps sends the message that what they're listening to must be fake. This preconcived notion of "What real sounds like" was advantageous. Instead of simply holding the microphone into the air; a high-quality, pure audio recording of humpback whales in the wild was taken. It wasn't filled with static or background noise- yet it was real... How strange. Additionally, sound B purposely has that all the low quality features of a live capturing yet is deceptively constructed and fake.

2. "Whales just don't sound real" - Whats that? A creeky door? A small child blowing bubbles in his milk? A diseased alien!??..... It was a whale..... nuff said....

3. "A familiar sound MUST be real" - ofcourse, were all familar with the great Marc Couroux.

We should all be well accostomed to the sound of his voice. Many people also have the preconcieved notion that something must be fake if they can't identify it. Reversely, Something must be real if it sounds like something you've heard before; right? Well, sound B (the recording of our professor) was a fake. Listen again closely and one can see how it jumps around topics in a  confusing yet seemless way. Laszlo Moholy-nagy Helped create the telephone pictures of 1922. He was NOT "The creator of art practices and telecommunications". LOL 

If you havent heard the clips yet then you kinda ruined the fun for yourself..
Nevertheless, here they are:
SOUND A / SOUND B