Walking around campus on a typical day, the sounds of the Tiger Band ring out, the chimes of Memorial Tower resonate through the grounds and the chatter of students scurrying to class fills the air.
But University sculpture students are looking to craft different sounds to accompany specific areas of campus.
Loren Schwerd’s advanced sculpture class, ART 4761, will unveil its “sound walk” today.
Schwerd said the sound walk project will feature noises unique to specific locations on campus that students in her class were inspired to create by their daily interaction with those areas.
The class created a website that can be accessed on mobile phones or regular computers. The user then enters a code found at each specific area that will activate the specific sound on the website. She said the sounds can be accessed online at sound.art72.org.
Schwerd said a map will also be available online that shows each sound’s location on campus.
Sculpture senior Cole Wiley designed the website used to broadcast the sounds. He said with regular sculptures, artists have to get permission to use the space to display their art, but the process was easier with sound.
Sculpture senior Andrew Deluca’s piece will play in the Design Building’s outdoor stairwell. Deluca said he was inspired to create the sound after climbing the building’s four flights of steep stairs, which left him winded.
Deluca’s sound is a voice that advises the listener of the best strategy for climbing the stairs, advising participants to take deep breaths and rest between flights.
“It’s instructions for climbing the stairs,” Deluca said. “It’s an instructional on how you are going to get tired going up the stairs, like one played on a hike where there’s an overly cheesy tour