Sound Production in the Arts

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Soundscape

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voice project

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Week 5 response to Lev Manovich

On February 11, 2000, an alien race known as the Replicators appeared in the television series Stargate SG-1. These mechanical beings absorb material and information and constantly build upon their previous forms to create stronger bodies. These fictional creatures essentially embody remix.

  Information has no true end point. It merely keeps transforming and finding new pathways to move forward, or sideways, or diagonally. Every new path provides an avenue of change or improvement.  

Manovich describes how a new method of transformative work can take from the macro rather than the micro. Traditionally small pieces of cultural work are sampled for the sake of using them as accents in a new work. However, in this new model, larger works are reworked together to re-contextualize them, in some ways as an act of subversion but others as a form of interaction and self-communication. 

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source materials: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQxn4oEkEvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM32Xn6YtQE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Ywmjn_1FU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Ab7aTR7Gw

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source material: https://metapop.com/pages/promos/semi-dempride-deux-cinq?p=1 

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horizontal sound arrangement

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Sounds for Horizontal Arrangement

https://soundcloud.com/user-839524679/jiggling-cardboardwav

https://soundcloud.com/user-839524679/crushing-tortilla-chips-in-handwav

https://soundcloud.com/user-839524679/crinkling-a-plastic-cupwav

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Week 2 reading response

Jacques Attali positions sound, noise, and music as an ultimate power. It embodies the purest essence of movements and is a tool of creation pivotal to the human experience. This view disregards the experiences of may others though. To maintain that sound is an absolute denies the lives of those unable to hear it and completely interact with it. With this in mind we must ask ourselves “How do the deaf, who are more sensitive to the feeling of sound vibrations, interpret its meaning in light of its source?”

The Kahn reading describes noise and sound in a less ethereal light but still one that elevates it above so many other natural phenomena. It is a way to cross cultural borders and establish more mutual understanding. However it can still act as force to ‘other’ those who have used it so differently on the margins of the familiar. 

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Response on Elegy

Eric’s piece invoked feelings of enclosure and entrapment. However, I felt as though I was still drifting through space, all too aware of my impending doom, but not concerned about it. The notion of constant solitude is present throughout the piece and tension is never lost until these stand alone sounds start around 3:57. They take you out of your mind if just for a moment.

My relationship to sound is very spatially oriented. No matter what I’m listening to the imagined setting is what I settle into. Elegy took me a dark room (existing beyond the world) in which the shadows of my past played out before me. There is no color except quick flashes of amber light. As if the dawn is trying to break through. These moments reminded me of this short film which exists in a similar zone if not a more dramatic one.