Living in a Cartoon
March 5, 2007 by Trent Adams
I’m in a meeting today with a conference call bridging a couple different parties, and I was struck by the power of the soundscape of various applications. Throughout the meeting (with just about everyone having laptops in front of them) there were a number of “sting” sounds heard zinging around.
After this happened a couple times (IM alerts, phone bridge tones, etc.) it felt like we were living in a cartoon… But instead of amusing “hit with a frying pan” sounds, they were all useful cues for what was going on around us. This is tangentially related to my post about sounds making a difference.
… Though everyone had their own score and it was amusing being surrounded by it all.
