Master Clip Transcripts

This page includes transcripts for the various short clips embedded in the Sonic Strategies" sections of this webtext.

Music Clip Transcript – Mike

“Lull” by Blue Dot Sessions plays in the background: a very slow, sorrowful song played on a Rhodes keyboard and occasional banjo

Male Voice (conversational in tone)
For all she knew I was dead (small pause), and she drove off. (longer pause) And she’s a lawyer! She was studying law.

“Lull” fades out

So she came up with this bullshit report, where she was like, “I didn’t know I hit somebody. I thought something fell out of the car in front of me.”

“FasterFasterBrighter” by Blue Dot Sessions begins: a nostalgic song at a quickened pace played with an upright bass and a Rhodes keyboard.

And then this whole long process with her insurance company, where they kept putting off paying for my medical bills when obviously she was at fault, it dragged out for months and months and months.

Silence Clip Transcript – Anne

Pencil writing sound in the background

Young Narrator (Slightly higher-pitched than 24 year old, tense, urgent, breathy, desperate sounding, 18 year old* female voice)
Either I don’t live with her anymore, (2 second pause of silence) or I don’t live.

(Pencil writing sound ends and SILENCE for 3 seconds)

Present-Day Narrator (Higher in pitch, urgent, tense, 24 year old female voice)
I got out of there.

*This voice is digitally created by making the pitch higher during the editing process

Silence Clip Transcript – Mike

Music in the background: “Lull” by Blue Dot Sessions plays in the background: a very slow, sorrowful song played on a Rhodes keyboard and occasional banjo

Male Voice (deep, American accent, conversational)
“do you know a (.5 second pause of silence) Sofia *bleep*?”

(3.5 second pause of silence with music still playing in the background)

And sure enough, she was the one who hit me with the car.

(4 second pause of silence with music still playing in the background)

For all she knew I was dead, (1.25 second pause of silence with music still playing in the background) and she drove off. (2 second pause of silence with music still playing in the background)

Sound Effects Clip Transcript – Megan

Male Voice: [Silverware clatters and cupboards open and close in the background as WOMAN moves about in the kitchen.] I don’t think he ever gets to wake up and go home… No. That reminds me, I think I was having that dream again?

Female Voice: [Absently] Which one?

Male Voice: Uh, you know, th-the one where I lose all my fingers. You know [scoffs], I’m in the car driving home, from where I’m not sure. [In the background, sound of a car engine, gradually increasing in volume as it picks up speed.] I pull into the driveway, and suddenly I lose control of the car, I crash into the garage door. [Screeching tires — car swerves and crashes, with the crunching of metal.]

Sound Interaction Clip Transcript – Megan

WOMAN [reading from MAN’s dream journal]: Dreamt I was like three or four months pregnant…? Spent the whole dream protectively cupping my belly with my hands. Think I may have actually been doing this while asleep too. [A baby cries and gets progressively louder.] [Laughingly] Uh-oh. Is there something you need to tell me? How can you find this shit meaningful? [Crying ceases.]

MAN: [Disoriented] Wh-what?

WOMAN: I said, how can you find this shit meaningful?

Voice Clip Transcript – Mike

Chris Rand: [In a casual, conversational tone] But uh… I think we were still connected on, like, Facebook. Look, this is the age of Facebook, where somebody can nearly kill you, and you can, like, see their wedding photos. You know? And that’s what happened. I’d see her, like, wedding photos and I’d just look at this guy she was marrying and I was, like, “You poor bastard.” [A brief pause.] I haven’t really looked back. [Another brief pause.] I don’t think about it.