Hearing Is Believing!

This auditory essay was very interesting to listen to. It talks about how the medium of communication today is changing from the medium used in earlier times. This is a good point now communication is mostly electronic. There is rarely any face to face contact today. Professor Sloan also talks about how you can send a text message and the meaning can be interpreted in many different ways which bring me to our class discussion about hi and hey. There were some people who felt like someone saying hi meant they didn’t really want to talk and others felt like someone saying hey meant they didn’t want to talk. He talks about how when listening to music you focus on the background music rather than the actual words. He says “we make meaning through sound” I think this is a good point. You take more when listening to things rather than when you’re seeing and reading these same things. It’s very interesting how that song got banned for being a bad song when it had no words. How can you really say sounds are bad? There are many different ways to interpret songs and their sounds & meanings when listening. This current generation relies mostly on current technology advances as their only mean of communication. Trying different media will give you a different outlook on things.