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Coffee Making

ITPG-GT 2004 Hypercinema taught by Ali Santana

This post is a sonic journey through coffee making. The starting point was to collect sounds that transport the listener to another location, using sound to build a journey of no more than two minutes.

For our group project, an eight-minute field recording was chopped and edited into a 1 minute 48 second ASMR piece, combining the story of an everyday process with detailed sounds intended to create a moment to slow down and relax.

Watch Coffee Making ASMR on YouTube.

Coffee-making setup with a drip coffee maker, ground coffee, a mug, a water jar, filters, and an ice tray.
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Group 4 team photo and credits: Brooklyn for field recording, Johann for the idea, audio chopping, and coffee making, and Amy for final editing, rendering, and presentation.
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Coffee maker and field recording equipment, with notes on materials and the documentary and ASMR approach.
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Seventeen coffee-making sound events with audio waveforms, from placing the filter to ice melting.
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Chopped sound recordings.

CapCut editing timeline and notes on cutting, sequencing, adjusting levels, reducing noise, and smoothing transitions.
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