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Dialects

Background

The set of audio samples below is a collection of sounds of Lewis University students and faculty reciting the five distinct values from the university’s mission statement: Knowledge, Fidelity, Wisdom, Justice, and Association. The purpose of these recordings was to capture the various dialects of the Lewis community, demonstrating the institution’s diversity in a unique way. Using a Zoom H2 recorder, I walked the campus, asking people to recite the five values from a piece of paper. The audio files were then edited to isolate the person’s voice from the surrounding soundscape, in an effort to clearly depict each person’s tone, accent, and timbre of their voice.

Dorian Starks
December 2009

Samples

  © 2009 by Red Earth Publishing