Assignment 1 - Creating
a dataset from mundane
sounds

The aim of this assignment was to build a dataset by digitizing analog objects. My idea was to use data as a way to render visible some of the sounds that we meet in our everyday life but tend to take for granted. By capturing
sounds and furthermore extracting and processing characteristics of the captured data, my
aim was to try to represent the sounds as a tangible form in my dataset.

Figure 1 - Pictures of the sound sources + their recorded waveform

Figure 2 - The dataset created from the recorded sounds

Figure 3 - My taxonomy for the created dataset, explaining the different rows

Figure 4 - Explaining how i extracted the loudest and second loudest frequency peak in Audacity

Possible traces of my own situatedness:
- The choice of recording equipment
- The type of sounds captured
- Classifying the sounds
- The choice of variables to illustrate in the dataset
- The way i measured / extracted the specific metadata