My Audio Proposal

For my audio project, I would like to create a journey from a rural area of the United States, possibly in the past, to another world. I'm not exactly sure what sort of world it will be, but I know that it will be pure fantasy (as opposed to, for example, an alternate universe or hidden sect of our own world). It may involve magic or different life forms or a battle, but I'll have to see where the sounds take me once I get there. I do plan on using many sounds as well as music that I will record myself; the music will probably be a few simple sounds on the piano or guitar to enhance the atmosphere of my initial country/rural setting (which was very musically oriented, at least in my opinion, to blues and country).

Response to Sound Projects

I listened to quite a few of these projects, and, frankly, I just thought a lot of them were very silly. I'm a very visual person (and, therefore, very biased), and I'm not too interested in sound unless it's musical or unless it accompanies some sort of visual media. A lot of these projects dealt with the manipulation of human voices and sound devices to create a dramatic effect, but I wasn't really buying it at all. I wasn't moved by any of it. However, after I tried a few links, I listened to Milan Knizak's Broken Music Composition, and I loved it (at least compared to the others). I suppose I just liked it because it had really old sounding music that was all scratched up, as if the record was damaged. I liked it because it made me feel sort what I would call a more complex version of nostaglia. It reminded me of records and all the old style music I've listened to my whole life, but some of the sound effects distorted it so much that you could barely hear the music. So, I liked the fact that it wasn't just purely nostalgic of old music-- that would have been cheesy. I think this one stood out more for me because, as a musician, I connected with the sounds and the concept of it more so than with the other works.

Response to the Reading

I think this reading contained several interesting concepts about contemporary art that got me thinking. Contemporary art and deejaying, for example, are not two things that I would immediately think to compare. However, it does seem to be how artists work in this era, i.e. by reusing or combining prexisting ideas or works and elaborating on them in some way. My response to this reading was mainly to the idea of using sources in contemporary art; I've never relied too heavily on sources (consciously, anyways), and it was interesting for me, as an artist, to read this article which offered some insight into the thought process behind reusing old art. One artist said something along the lines of "why make new objects when we have so many in the world already?" I loved that; I can see how an artist would use this idea to jusitfy working solely from sources. I could see myself working from sources because of that idea: there are so many concepts and artworks in the world that haven't been fully analyzed and understood, and it would be interesting to create a work which elaborates on its source's original meaning.

link to an art project

here is a link to a project called sketch furniture
it's basically a company that used motion-detection devices to make 3D images out of sketches; the 3D images are turned into blueprints for furniture.

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