PROJECT #3, FINAL VERSION

**My sound project did not really change that much from the rough mix. The only changes were the panning and addition of a few more sounds. After the critique of the rough mix I decided to experiment with the effects in garageband to make my piece more abstract. When I listened to the abstracted version I had realized that I didn’t like it anymore. For some reason the artificial sounds did not really have the same affect on me that the real sounds had. To me the real sounds create more of an environment I could actually picture my in while the abstracted version created an artificial environment that for some unknown reason didn’t irritate me like the real sounds did. Long story short, I ended up going with something similar to the rough mix because it felt much more personal to me than altering something just to alter it.

For this sound art assignment I decided to compile sounds that distract me. I wanted to recreate that feeling I get when I have a something to do and I am trying my best to concentrate but then I just start to focus on all of the sounds around me. Whenever I know I have to concentrate I always find myself getting distracted by the littlest of noises like someone coughing or writing loudly. Eventually all those little noises just build up and becomes too much. I did this in my sound art by layering up various distracting sounds and sounds that are related to schoolwork. Some of the sounds that I recorded are writing noises, coughing, a clicking of a pen, an instant messaging noise and crinkling of paper. I really tried to play with panning in this project to create a sound that was very atmospheric to really put the listener in this noisy, uncomfortable, anxious, and unproductive environment.

PROJECT #3, ROUGH MIX

PROJECT #2, DOCUMENTATION OF PERFORMANCE

For this project the theme that I chose was responsibility. When I thought of responsibility I thought of the responsibility that comes with along with reading the newspaper. When I read a newspaper I immediately feel a responsibility to help all of the suffering people. There is a certain burden that slowly builds up and comes along with being well informed. At a point you have to decide to do something or break free and live your own life. I decided to embody this feeling in my performance by wrapping myself in newspaper. The more newspaper I add is referring the more information or knowledge about the world that I am taking in and burdening myself with. The more that I wrapped myself in newspaper the more burdened I became. I felt irritated, stressed, uncomfortable and unable to even move by the end of the process, which is similar to how I feel when I know more about things that are happening to people around the world. At a certain point you just have to let go and live your own life. I represented this in my performance by ripping off the newspaper and walking away from it at the end of my performance.

 

PERFORMANCE, ROUGH-CUT #1

PROJECT 1, FINAL CUT

For this video project my theme was “consumption”. Instead doing a video on one of the more classic interpretations of consumptions (food, money, etc.) I decided to make a video about the consuming that I, as a student, do on a daily basis. The consuming I am talking about is the consumption of knowledge. In school (especially around finals time) I always feel that there is too much information being thrown at me, more information than my brain can hold. In the first scene I show a bunch of books stacking up with the sound of an airplane taking off. In the next scene I show myself putting books into a trash bag, more books than the bag can hold to represent my brain filling up with info. Sound in this scene is very important. I have a Morse code sound attached to this scene to represent the encoding that ours brains do in order to remember things. I then show clips of various info to show all of the things in the that are in the bag and the sound is to represent how difficult it is to quiet your mind when you have to remember so much. At the end I have the bag breaking to show that breaking point that we all have felt when we just can’t possibly remember one more thing.

VIDEO, ROUGH-CUT #2

VIDEO, ROUGH-CUT #1

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