{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/bk16m3540g/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["October 28th"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/128/original/UA_Logo_WHT_RGB_%281%29.png?1725471982","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Kennedy-Flynn, Sydney (Creator)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2026-01-12 (Published)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSydney Kennedy-Flynn (she/they)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMasters student, Soil Science\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFaculty of Agricultural, Life \u0026amp; Environmental Sciences, Department of Renewable Resources\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSemifinalist\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist Statement\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThese sounds are what I hear throughout a normal day of research: an anaerobic chamber and its airlock and a gas chromatograph. My research is about reducing contamination in soil and ground water using microbes that live in the soil. In this piece, there is a focus on waiting: waiting for the machine cycles to be done, waiting for the data to be processed, waiting to get home. More broadly and over many months, I’m waiting to see changes in the data. At the beginning of my grad studies, I often felt lonely and isolated, speaking only to my cat at the start and end of the day. But eventually I began to feel comforted by these machines humming. Their loud sounds and monotony became background noise and reliability throughout the long days, and my research became varied and social. October 28th is not a special day, it’s just another day where I got out of bed, said goodbye to my cat, and got to work, like hundreds of the same. But it’s one that was necessary for me to realize that my research was important.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eField recordings of activities on the U of A campus.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCreative Process \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI used my phone to record sounds on campus and me walking around. I then used Audacity to pick and edit down the clips I wanted to use. I didn't cut out any background noise or enhance the audio, I just took the raw files and stitched them together in 15 or 30 second pieces. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons licence, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0): see \u003ca href=\"creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/\"\u003ecreativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/\u003c/a\u003e. 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More broadly and over many months, I\u0026rsquo;m waiting to see changes in the data. At the beginning of my grad studies, I often felt lonely and isolated, speaking only to my cat at the start and end of the day. But eventually I began to feel comforted by these machines humming. Their loud sounds and monotony became background noise and reliability throughout the long days, and my research became varied and social. October 28th is not a special day, it\u0026rsquo;s just another day where I got out of bed, said goodbye to my cat, and got to work, like hundreds of the same. 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