Cut-Ups Reading

Regarding the cutting and pasting of words and images, I've always been a fairly strong advocate of the right of an artist to use sources. I like the idea of not neglecting those things already in existance rather than creating new things. It's also quite important in understanding your source: disecting it in order to reverse or change its meaning will create a more deep understanding of its purpose. At the same time, I'm also somewhat neutral on the reading- I really feel like I need to see these things in action, so to speak. I completely understand cutting and pasting both visually and ligustically or just visually, but I'm not entirely clear on why artists would cut and paste solely within literature. I'm not oppossed to it; I'm not saying I think it's silly, but I'd like to see more examples of it. The paragraph of rearanged words was not enough for me to fully understand the purpose of doing this. So, my question is less of a question and more of a desire to see additional illustrations of what this reading is talking about.

Jim Carrey Before and After Use of The Healing Brush/Patch Tool

Dada Post

For this assignment I chose to observe John Heartfield's work. I read the post on how to include pictures, but I can't seem to get it to work. Here's the link instead.
I observed the first two works: Prussian Archangel and Cover of Jedermann sein egner Fussball.
Prussian Archangel would appear to use assemblage first off, but actually this piece is more of a collaged work. Although assemblage involves 3 dimensional objects, they must generally also be found objects. These are all things that were made by Heartfield; some, such as the uniform, were made from pre-existing frameworks, but he made them personally and collaged them together to create this work.

Cover of Jedermann sein egner Fussball is a perfect example of assemblage. It contains things such as a fork, a gun, a lightbulb, and a manequin. These items were not made by Heartfield, but, rather, were placed together to create a 3 dimensional sculpture.

As for their meanings, the first one, clearly, is an anti-war sentiment, and the audio can tell us that it is specifically pointed towards German militarism. I'm not sure about the second, since there is no audio. I almost want to say it is a statement on women, or perhaps machinery's influence onk mankind.

My Audio Project

Here's my audio project. Basically. the task was to create a journey from one place to another, and my journey is from a rural, country area in the United States to the door to another world.
My audio project

Sounds from the Freesound Project are as follows:
water by HerbertBoland
crickets by genghis
dogs barking by ronfont
ending noise (altered) by nicstage
door opening by Glaneur
lock opening by RHumphries
sand footsteps by hazure
singing by irishtokia
ghost sounds by hanstimm

Sounds by me:
guitar part
dialogue
piano

Response to Janet Cardiff

I responded more to the dialogue in Janet Cardiff's piece than anything else. I really loved the mystery of it; she would be speaking normally about something we can all understand, but then she would tell us something personal, or the male voice would interject. It created this dream-like effect wherein the real world is just as it always is with the addition of a a few warps and an enhanced perception of symbols and signs. However, I also recognize that the dialogue, which was my favorite aspect of the piece, was greatly enhanced by the use of a 3 layer audio. She would have, for example, dialogue in the foreground, footsteps in the middle ground, and appropriate ambience in the background such as water or crickets or machinery of some sort, perhaps some far off voices as well. Without these aspects of the piece, it would not be reality. It would just be a dialogue taking place in a plain, sound-proof recording studio. She didn't want that effect, though; she wanted us to be there with her, in her dream, and I think the three layer structure really worked for her purposes. It imitates reality very accurately.

My Audio Exercise

Here's my audio exercise
So this is just a little clip I made of a few quotes by G.W. Bush with some groovy background music, I hope you enjoy it.

Here is my source list, all are from The Freesound Project:
The intro baglama part is by jason01234
The background bell song is by spyguy
The quotes from G.W. Bush are by m:o