Blog Post #2

This week we covered two articles "Composing for Sound: Sonic Rhetoric as Resonance and The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning Aurality. In the article (Composing for Sound) it mentioned the new forms of media in which writers must become aware of using. For instance, the use of audio and video will help the writing medium better illustrate ideas. “encourage teachers to develop an increasingly thoughtful understanding” of aurality (p. 618). Interest in sonic composition has emerged within the field of computers and composition as a complement to the field’s interests in visual rhetorics and multimodal composition, but the sound remained one of the more underdeveloped compositional modes"(Composing For Sound). Through these forms of expression you begin to push ideas and elaborate on them far more than just writing. Article goes on to state that, " Instead of plunging our students immediately into the process of writing scripts and recording voice- overs, we now train them in particular ways of listening, using sound art installations and musical recordings as sound objects" (Composing For Sound). Expressing the importance of applying new-found methods will allow the medium to further express itself in the future to come.