In today’s lecture, we did an activity that involved us downloading LocusCast, a live streaming phone application for streaming sound only. We each had to broadcast the sounds of our surroundings live and share it with the class. During the other students’ broadcast, I found it quite engrossing to be listening in on their surroundings. I remember a few people mentioning how there was this underlying feeling of intrusiveness and someone even mentioned a “very slight uncomfortableness” when broadcasting their audio. When it came to my turn, I began to understand this. There’s something a little startling about others receiving a broadcast of your personal surroundings; maybe it’s the element of being spied upon, or the idea that something as minuscule as a stomach rumbling will be broadcasted straight to the listeners. Having said this, I did find listening back to my own stream to be quite a fascinating little experience. Listening live, you hear little details that you don’t usually pay attention to, and I noticed that even the overall ambience is more intense. I found this group task to be an interesting one and it’s something I’d possibly like to dabble in in the future.