Illustrating Sound by @Minzoku (Julie Miyamoto)

Digging through my old artwork, I found a college assignment from 1996[!], designed to illustrate sound.

I chose a recording I had made of another one of my classes, with the various bumps, peaks, and floating balls representing of others talking [sort of what they say more than volume], the one angry-looking flash being a particularly outspoken classmate, the grey blocks in the background being the tick of the clock going by, and the green ribbon being my attention span... =p