Soundblog

I was sitting with my friend Hannah a couple nights ago, having some after-dinner sorbet, when the conversation turned to memories. We reminisced about spending time in Africa, how we tried to keep diaries and journals throughout the years, but quickly lost interest after a few weeks of scrawling daily.

Her being a first grade teacher, we talked about how difficult it is for us to keep our minds focused — both the first graders and ourselves. Perhaps, I suggested words on the page aren’t the best way of documenting the past for some people. If a sentence in a journal entry is supposed to trigger a memory about a specific moment and place — a visual or emotional tie to the present — then why couldn’t other sensory forms do the same?

We’ve all seen photo blogs and youtube nearly defines pop media today. But what if we were able to capture short, interesting clips of sound at intervals, that when put together create a collage, a journal of sound, a sound twitter feed.

Thus was born the idea of the soundblog. Over an indefinite period of time, I will be recording and posting short sound clips; almost like sound tweets - should they be called ‘sweets’? Somewhere down the road, I will compile the sounds into a single feed that will hopefully trigger reflection much as a journal would.