Audio Project

Stormy Night
This is my first audio project it's supposed to emulate a stormy night.


The audio pieces I used to create this project belong to these following people:

By pryght one
harp.wav

By gim-audio
Torden og lynild 4.wav

By tnickles
delayedsoftnotes.wav

Journey Audio Project Proposal

My journey audio project will be based off of the idea of journeying through a short period of time. It’ll be based off of the uncomfortable silence found in a room full of people that have nothing to say or relate to each other. The journey aspect of the project will take root in the listeners mind as they journey through the same uncomfortable silence and anxiety the person in the recording is having to deal with. Of course seeing as it is an audio project there will be an underlining of constant sounds throughout the whole piece so while in theory I’m setting up a situation based off of silence there won’t actually be any silence in the recording. The main common thread I will use while emulating this silence will be the ticking of a clock, not only does this make the listener feel like they are journeying through time and progressing onwards it will also help increase the anxiety or unease of sitting in silence. To create the awkwardness of sitting in a room full of people in complete silence I will have a series of background noses that will work to increase the discomfort of the situation; someone shuffling around, some nervous tapping, random periods of annoying whistling, humming, coughing, chewing gum, and a whole bunch of other activities that someone might hear when sitting in a room in silence with several other people. Who knows I might even add in a little snoring. Now that would really be annoying.

Consumed ~Melissa Dean

Melissa Dean’s lecture Consumed dealt with the different aspects of our consumerist economy. Most her works were built off of the different material objects found within the realm of the consumer market, many of them coming from Target catalogs. She would then take the different objects, draw them as contours, and then overlap them to create intricate designs which would then be applied to her works usually through the method of printing.
Of all the works she showed us the ones I thought to be the most interesting were the ones where she took individuals and had them pick out the items that they would like to purchase from a Target catalog. Once everyone had selected their choices she would compile all the objects into a print for every individual as a sort of measurement of that person’s willingness to take part of the consumer economy. The people with the most overlap seemed to be more entrenched in the consumerist life style compared to the people with little overlap. This is probably not an accurate way of measuring individual consumerist natures but it is an interesting idea and way of portraying the individual.
When you think of consumerism it usually comes with a negative undertone, but Dean seems to pickup on consumerism with an almost a nonchalant attitude. She recognizes the consumerism in our culture and instead of building up on the negative aspects of consumerism she seems to just treat it for what it is, a factual part of our society. She sees the drive toward material goods in our culture, yet she also willingly admits to playing into them like everyone else. It’s almost as if she finds it amusing that we are caught in a constant cycle of buying and accumulating material objects. Many that we know we do not need, but insist on getting anyway.

Flute Music

Here is a short flute clip I got off of freesound. It was done by Kerri Lake, a flutist. This small clip is part of one of her original Native American flute pieces. When I first listened to this clip I found it very calm and soothing, but as I continued to listen to it I started to pick up some daunting and almost spooky undertones. While this piece is beautiful and calming it also holds a mystery to it, a mystery that creates a loneliness and melancholy to the music.

Clip Art Project

This is a clip art project I found on Rhyizome. The project pretty much consists of 787 different pieces of clip art that are meshed together into a 1:05 minute segment.

http://oliverlaric.com/787cliparts.htm

"The Eighties and the Birth of DJ Culture: Toward a Formal Collectivism

Here are the links I found in relation to a few of the artists and art movements referanced in the artical.

This first link is to a site on situationists:
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/1956.html

This is a site on Marcel Duchamp:
http://www.understandingduchamp.com

This is the artnet site on Mike Kelley.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/9362/mike-kelley.html

Here is a site about a past Donald Judd exhibition at the Tate Modern:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/judd/

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