Week 15
Your reflections on the reading ? In my opinion, in the “One square inch of silence” I can hear the birds and frogs like it was in a natural environment place and even the feeling that makes the sound. Also I learned that it helps the memory to recognize which sounds the guitar, telephone and car have names of a sound. If you hear them, you convert it to art. It’s just not objects, but a different perspective. Also I learned that to balance the sounds by making different points of sounds, it makes the sound different. Also, I don’t like the sounds too loud but I do like those sound that are low and sweet. In addition, hearing is different from listening which I didn’t know. Listening is paying attention and interacting with it. Listening happens when we convert sensible sound and connect with it.
Your reflections on the videos/media? My reflections on the video are that Susan Philipsz was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She works in psychological and sculptural sizes of sound. She records her voice and makes music. She collects old historical instruments and makes music sound with them. She puts her work of art in the environment in the water, street and traffic passing. The train station that Suzan spends most of her time at is one that was used most often to take the Jews to a concentration camp. Susan and the Jewish man work together, and composed music which they made sound like if it was World War II. Susan wants to make on her 18th anniversary the sound of the annexation of Austria by Germany.She lives and works in Berlin.
Has your opinion or understanding of art changed at all? How? In my opinion this class changed my point of view to see life differently, especially art, because before I didn’t think sound was art.
What artworks did you strongly like or dislike and why? I like “One Square Inch of Silence” because it is natural, it feels calmed down, and it’s a place to relax.
How does this relate to your life and interests? Well I like sound, but not too loud. I am more like a calm person and like the sound low.
This class certainly does change the point of view to see art differently! I too, did not think of sound as art until I read about it in the blog and watched the video about it this week. I found it hard to comprehend that art is sound. Normally art is what we see or visualize, so it was interesting that it was put it into the category as art. After learning more about it, I admit that it intrigued me. The added theatrical element of sound does create a significant impact on what the artist is trying to convey to us. Overall, I enjoyed it more than what I anticipated!
