I agree with Damon Krukowski that there is not as much proximity to digital microphones as to analog microphones, yet I don’t believe that means we don’t have confidentiality on the call. Krukowski points out that with the move to electronic, the sound of our voices on the phone has deteriorated, no matter how close we hold them to our face, the cell phone has no proximity effect, everyone sounds as close to or as far as anyone. He says that ” the voice we hear on the phone just provides details, not for most of the environment, and thus loses privacy. However, I think that we can still sense familiarity through the sound of the voice. We can tell if the person we speak to is happy, sad, worried, and so on, on the digital phone as well. IN digital headsets enable us to communicate all around the world with people, such as our relatives. A quick phone call means a great deal to all of us as we operate and we’ll get to it easily in the distance

1.  In Krukowski’s “Love” episode of Ways of Seeing, he shares his past personal experiences on the fidelity of analog phone calls. He informs me on the information lost in digital phone calls in the modern age. Krukowski does a great job in explaining the function of sound and how we interpret it, such as the proximity effect. Low end is annunciated when the person is near a microphone while the high end is annunciated when further away. Krukowski then briefly pauses and invites us to reflect on the meaning of language, “When we share our voices, whether through song or speech. Aren’t we always saying more than our words? We’re sharing sounds so basic to our understanding that they proceed language.”. Krukowski is not giving us an answer here but is pointing out something we see with hindsight. There’s more to speech besides language, such as inflection, proximity, space, etc. These are important factors as they provide us with information beyond what is said. Inflections tell us if it’s a question or statement, proximity tells us how far the source is, any form of reverb which can give us a sense of space. These are all elements of speech that get lost with digital technology through compression which removes dynamics in volume, EQ to remove unnecessary low end that’s not needed for speech recognition and noise gates to removes unwanted noise that could be picked up. All we hear is the spoken language.
2. The most interesting topic that’s explored is the social aspects of sex and language and how that impacts A.S.M.R.’s perception to the public. I never put into words my thoughts on our languages limitations on expressing the grey areas of love and pleasure. Jamie Lauren Keiles’ provides an example, if you enjoy getting your feet touched, that doesn’t necessarily mean you go to shoe stores for fun. There is a name for people who seek that–eccentrics,  perverts. Since the language used to describe A.S.M.R. share the same language in those gray areas, being sexualized is an inevitability.

In “Ways of Hearing Episode 3 – LOVE”, Damon Krukowski states “that digital sound impedes our perception of those sonic qualities that help us experience intimacy”. He explains how intimacy is not the same through digital phones because it does not capture every sound. He explains how the advancement of technology has lost its intimacy feeling because of how engineers have amplified the sound because they have smaller data packages so they can travel around the world. Krukoski states “The sound of our voices in our voices have gotten worse since we switch to digital…” I disagree  with this because technology has advanced to the point where is much better than it was before. We can now make long distance calls across the world and you actually hear the persons voice no problem. Digital phones have the ability to connect to headphones and you can hear that persons voice to clearly, you can now put your phone on speaker and do other things while on the phone with that person. You can multitask and use your phone to talk and play games. Technology has advanced in many good ways, there still is intimacy in digital calls because we have things like facetime where you can see the person one and one and just laugh and joke around. In my opinion our voices have not gotten worse, but have gotten louder and more clear for the person on the other side to hear you no matter how far they are.

One interesting thing that I found in “How A.S.M.R became a sensation” is that it is a braingasm. ASMR can affect how a person feels and can change their mood based on sounds. Sounds are such a powerful thing and this is prove of that because sound has the ability to make a person feel relaxed, cause less stress just based of ASMR. I myself actually like ASMR videos or sounds because it helps me relax and relieve stress. It calms me down and help me not stress to much about all my real life problems. It is like a whole different world where its just peace.

1.In this episode ‘love’ “way of hearing”, Damon Krukowski acknowledge that “proximation  through analog and digital audio phone. He are comparing connection between people and these analog phone sound, digital phone”. Analog and cell phone don’t don’t make range of sound.  And, Digital phone is huge efficient and easier to share our voice around the world, but it this digital sound push away quality . I have mix feeling about it.  I agree with Krukowski way of concede that analog and cellphone don’t have full range of voice. its don’t have clear tune. Another hand, I don’t agree with Krukowski, ” digitalization is getting worse’. Digitalization is more effective . we can conversation facetime entire the world which make us closeness. We are taking online classes this during pandemic. Krukowski also says that ” sound of voice build a proximation”, every single people have different voice which give different feeling to other people. For example, my small daughter voice so sweet it makes me relax and stress relief. Another side, my mother-in-law’s voice give anxiety  because I feel her voice irritation.

2. As the article “How A.S.M.R Became sensation”, describe that perception, sensation. when  we see, hear, touch, smell, it  stimulus our brain and we response it. There some scientific data and experiment about A.S.M.R. it produces variety of sounds that make people feel relax, calm and enjoyable, and sleep. However, I saw the video in about A.S.M.R  that didn’t make me relax it tingle me.

Damon Krukowski shows how the voice of the person can change behind a microphone this is because the sound was transferred to a digital platform this can have the effect of being able to change the voice like that of a robust man, make it more acute that is what The same as when an artist enters a chamber to be able to record an album, example is the autotuning thing that can simplify your voice but in my opinion I think that the most interesting part about sound in the history of ASMR is that it can be used to reduce the anxiety. because I know a person with this case who suffer from anxiety and for them to be able to relax, use the method of music.

I think Damon Krukowski proves his point In how your voice can change in the microphone and being more sexually by just hearing the person voice, making you feel like the person is next to you! In my opinion, it can be compared to a.s.m.r but in words then objects. He also explains how it can make you imagine the person next to you and make a connection through the voice on the microphone.
After reading the article, I learned more about what is a.s.m.r and how it makes some people feel just with the smallest sounds of different things. It makes you feel a tingly or sensation in the brain. After watching the .s.m.r, it gave me anxiety. I really didn’t enjoy some do enjoy. I really didn’t feel anything. It just got me to feel nervous about the noises they were making; maybe is just me. But it is interesting how it got the name and how it became a sensation for a lot of people.

1) Damon Krukowski’s is right that substantially inadequately describes intimacy through analog and digital audio sound. He has valid points in comparing designs when talking on analog phones than digital phones that your voice can change because of how different they are. However, Krukowski is probably wrong when he claims that “Digital tools make it possible to share our words across great distances, but they fail us in so many ways as we try to communicate one to one.” When you talk on face time, you can see the person’s face. Also, you can share special moments like birthday celebrations with family and friends and feel that you are right there with them when, in reality, you are thousands of miles away.
2)The most important part of the New York Times’ short story is how Jennifer Allen brought out the original name “ASMR Group” and enrolled it on Facebook. Some viers might say they find these youtube videos helpful to sleep, but I did not find it relaxing. When I saw the video of the A.S.M.R., it made me feel uncomfortable, especially to hear those crunching sounds. It made my body stiff in an awkward position, and it wasn’t coherent to my hearing’s balance because the sounds heard were different from my left to my right ear. For me, I find that hearing sound waves or birds chirping or wind blowing leaves on a tree is more soothing and synchronized with nature.

1. Though I concede that digital sound blocks our perception of the quality of sound that help us feel intimate, I still insist that the development of digital sound can help people experience intimacy in more ways. As Krukowski says that “unlike the old analog phones, cell phones don’t transmit the full range of sound picked up by their mikes. Instead, they digitally processed that sound. Compressing it to remove whatever engineers have decided is unnecessary data.” “The compression of our voices on the cell phone makes for smaller data packets that are easier to share over digital networks.” Engineers know that these digital sound loss those sonic qualities that feel intimate are not ideal, but their goal is to get basic information and enable us communicate with people all over the world more easily and efficiently. Just like us now, we need to take online courses, digital sound makes it easier for us to communicate on the digital network. Even though these digital sounds may not sound that intimate by processing them differently from real sounds, they allow us to be intimately connected, which is another way of helping us experience intimacy. Krukowski also says that “feeling is build on the sound of voice.” As we know, everyone’s voice is different, and the voice gives others a different feeling. In my opinion, sound is also unique when digitally processed. Therefore, even if the digital sound is removed some kinds of qualities, we can still distinguish the sound of each person’s voice and get different feelings. For example, my accounting professor’s digital voice made me feel closer than my btm’s professor. There is no doubt that they are good professors, but their voice has different frequency and amplitude. I feel very different from them.
2. As the article writes that ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is a new word to describe the phenomenon of perception, which is characterized by: the stimulation of sight, hearing, touch, smell or perception makes a person produce a unique in the brain, scalp, head or other areas of the body. Although ASMR has a large number of fanatical followers and conflicting evidence to prove the existence of this phenomenon, there are few or even no scientific explanations or experimental data to support it. I knew this new word before I read this article, and I have seen some videos. However, I also feel very clam like author when I watch the videos or hear the videos. I don’t understand this feeling. I think the most interesting and important point about sound of ASMR is that they can make people feel clam, relaxed and comfortable. Even though I don’t have an intracranial orgasm from these sounds, I feel calm, relaxed and comfortable. ASMR’s videos producers use many ways to produce various enjoyable and attractive sounds. What’s more, as the author mentioned, these sounds may also make people feel sleepy. That is interesting.