Healing and Patch Tools

Dada... Johannes Baargeld

The Dada artist I chose to write about was Johannes Baargeld... In the two examples of his work shown he has use the techniques of photomontage and collage in his work Ordinäre Klitterung: Kubischer Transvestit vor einem vermeintlichen Scheideweg and overpainting in his work Le Roi rouge.

Ordinäre Klitterung: Kubischer Transvestit vor einem vermeintlichen Scheideweg

In this work Baargeld cuts up different photographs to form a photomontage. In this process Baargeld also uses the typical techniques that form a collage, not all of his images are photographs, in fact many of them are paper clippings like you would find in most regular collages.

Le Roi rouge


This work uses mostly just the technique of overpainting since he is painting or drawing over and incorporating different aspects of the original piece or scrap and creating a new work of art. He also uses a slight bit of typography, but that is some what over shadowed by the drawing aspects of the work.

Audio Journey Project

Here it is... Languages, my journey audio.

This three minute audio clip is designed as a quick journey through my childhood starting out from my birth and running up until I was about 15. There are two different components in this piece that work together to recreate the first 15 years of my life.
One of these components is the on going narrative of my life that I have bouncing around between the background and the foreground of my piece. This narrative quickly summarizes some of the most important and memorable experiences of my life; the birth of my brother, moving from country to country, helping name my sister, and similar occurrences.
The narrative aspect of this piece consists of two different levels; that of the basic matter of fact narrative that just gives us an overview of my childhood, plain, simple, and straight to the point and an overlapping of comments and details that a reflective of the basic narrative.
The narrative was also done in Spanish, the language that dominated most of my childhood, with an underlying of English that for the most is covered up by the Spanish. Much like how English was always in the background of my childhood, but never a really prevalent thing.
The other component of this recounting of my childhood is the layering of various noises that remind me of specific moments or periods of my childhood. Each of this sounds triggers a memory or an experience that has a more of an emotional tie to my childhood then the matter of face and basic principles highlighted in the narrative. These sounds consist of air planes flying overhead, gun shots, an open air market, and the rain forest.

Sounds Accridited:
Freesounds Project
Rain By sazman (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=5726)
061224-chongnangnyi-market1(edit).wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=28250)

Plane By FreqMan (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=92661)
weirdplane.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24272)

Gun Shots By WIM (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=22241)
gunshots.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=26141)

Birds By genghis attenborough (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=205108)
Boat trip edt.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=28107)

Market By jenaber27 (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=111582)
interlochen-06_thunder1.aiff (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=30619)

Janet Cardiff

I had head of Janet Cardiff’s work before, and the one thing everyone seemed to describe it as was spooky, now I can see why. Her use of the three-level spatial structure fooled your mind into hearing and believing in noises that were not even there. I was not even on one of her guided walks, and there were some points where I didn’t know if what I was listening to was real or just a part of the audio piece. She uses the three-level spatial structure as almost three different levels on which to disorient you. On one of the levels you can hear Cardiff’s voice guiding you, and your mind initially focuses in on this level as the level on which she is sending you different sounds, the fake level, but as she adds sound to the background and foreground you realize that you can no longer distinguish from what is real and what is just sounds she is feeding to your mind. Some of her comments I found extremely wired and I couldn’t place them, but I imagine that is one of the things you would pickup and understand better if you were on the actual walk.

Ectoplasm - Lance Winn

I went to Lance Winn’s lecture on ectoplasm, or the tactility and form of art. What really struck me about this lecture was how well he described his process and intent for his artwork. He came up with all these different and crazy ideas and then worked them through for results that he would later build off of and improve on. He just took stuff he was curious about and went for it. At first I was a bit skeptical, I mean I found the lawn ornaments were a bit, well, out there, but as I saw him build up his though process and explore these different areas of art that we usually ignore or take for granted I was sucked in. Some of my favorite pieces of his were the landscapes he built out of his mistakes. He just kept on cutting away at the paper until he found something he was happy with. This idea of just working on a piece of art with no preemptive design or motives is sort of refreshing, you just work on it and work on it until you get to a point were you are comfortable with it. That and I, for one, have in the process of making of my own work encountered several mistakes of my own, that I have had to work around, and for the most part the results that occur from fixing these mistakes invoke creative solutions and usually an unexpected result that on many occasions turns out to be better then the original idea.
Lance Winn’s combination of the 2D and the 3D aspect of art, PBS art tips, and name tracing took simple ideas and applied them in new and creative pieces of art.

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.