Tuesday, February 27, 2007
William S. Burroughs Reading
After reading the reading, my opinion about the cut up technique is that I don't really like it. I feel like all it does is jumble up words so that is doesn't really make any sense. I don't think that it should be compared to an artist's collage at all. This is because I feel a collage is something you visually look at, and normally all of the cut up images are put together with some type of common theme that makes sense. Cutting up words and phrases and pasting them together I feel is nothing like that. The randomness of it also makes it less comphrensive when it is done. The examples of cut ups that are in the reading are not appealing to me at all. The finished product just seems like a mess to me, like it is butchering the English language. I personally just dont like it. My question is what do people who actually like this "cut up method" find appealing about it?
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Dada Artist: Man Ray
The Dada Artist whose artwork I chose to discuss is Man Ray.
The first peice of artwork I looked at is called Cadeau (Gift).
This peice of artwork is an example of a rectified readymade. "Readymades are everyday manufactured goods that are deemed to be art merely by virtue of the artist's selection of them as such". This readymade is an painted flat iron with a row of tacks that are glued to the bottom. The reason this is a rectified readymade is because a rectified readymade is a readymade that has been modified by the artist. In this peice, Ray modified the iron by gluing the tacks to the bottom.
The second piece of artwork I looked at is called Rayograph.
This piece of artwork is an example of a photogram. A photogram is defined as a "camera-less photographic print that records the placement of objects on photosensitive paper that has been exposed to light". This creates an abstract photograph. The objects that Ray photographed using this technique is obviously camera negatives. If you look closely, it looks like there is another object in there but you cant really tell what exactly it is. This piece is my favorite because the negatives are transparent which looks really neat and if you zoom the piece in, you can kind of make out that photo that is actually on the negative. In one part, it looks like a womans torso area (but that is just what I am seeing, Im not sure if I am correct). Also, if you zoom in to the top left hand corner, you can even see a fingerprint.
The first peice of artwork I looked at is called Cadeau (Gift).
This peice of artwork is an example of a rectified readymade. "Readymades are everyday manufactured goods that are deemed to be art merely by virtue of the artist's selection of them as such". This readymade is an painted flat iron with a row of tacks that are glued to the bottom. The reason this is a rectified readymade is because a rectified readymade is a readymade that has been modified by the artist. In this peice, Ray modified the iron by gluing the tacks to the bottom.
The second piece of artwork I looked at is called Rayograph.
This piece of artwork is an example of a photogram. A photogram is defined as a "camera-less photographic print that records the placement of objects on photosensitive paper that has been exposed to light". This creates an abstract photograph. The objects that Ray photographed using this technique is obviously camera negatives. If you look closely, it looks like there is another object in there but you cant really tell what exactly it is. This piece is my favorite because the negatives are transparent which looks really neat and if you zoom the piece in, you can kind of make out that photo that is actually on the negative. In one part, it looks like a womans torso area (but that is just what I am seeing, Im not sure if I am correct). Also, if you zoom in to the top left hand corner, you can even see a fingerprint.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Casey's Audio Journey From Home to the Beach
My Audio Journey
My audio journey is supposed to take you from a house in a neighborhood to the beach. I started off the peice indoors, and had the sound of flip flops (typical beach shoewear walking. I then had a door open to the outside. Outside, there is the sound of birds chirping and even a neighbor's dog. Unfortunately there is a short part where the sound cuts out, although it is not supposed to. That peice some how got cut out as I turned it into a wav or mp3. The journey then takes you to a car where you here keys juggling and then the open and slam of the car door. when the car door slams, the outside noises stop. The keys are put in the ignition and the car starts. You then hear the windows roll down and you can faintly hear the birds in the background. Then the car drives away and you can hear it on the road and cars passing by like on a highway. When the car arrives at the destination, the windows roll up, the car turns off and you hear the car door open and slam. You hear the sound of the ocean and the sound of walking. The walking stops and there are seagulls and the sound of a ship in the background. Yay, you are at the beach! I did this for my project because I love the beach, and the sound of the waves and the ocean is my favorite sound in the world so I had to use it for my project.
The sounds I recorded myself were the flip flops walking (inside and outside), the door slamming, and the car.
Attributions:
Ship Sound: By milo (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=444) ship2_bergen.aif (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23722)
Car Highway Sounds: By FreqMan (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=92661) cars pass by.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=20049)
Ocean Sounds: By Dynamicell (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=47052) Water_Miami_beach_Atlantic.aif (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=17552)
Seagull Sounds: By hazure (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=30150)
seagull.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23707)
Outdoor Sounds: By pcaeldries (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=97826) CountrySideSummerEvening.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23131)
My audio journey is supposed to take you from a house in a neighborhood to the beach. I started off the peice indoors, and had the sound of flip flops (typical beach shoewear walking. I then had a door open to the outside. Outside, there is the sound of birds chirping and even a neighbor's dog. Unfortunately there is a short part where the sound cuts out, although it is not supposed to. That peice some how got cut out as I turned it into a wav or mp3. The journey then takes you to a car where you here keys juggling and then the open and slam of the car door. when the car door slams, the outside noises stop. The keys are put in the ignition and the car starts. You then hear the windows roll down and you can faintly hear the birds in the background. Then the car drives away and you can hear it on the road and cars passing by like on a highway. When the car arrives at the destination, the windows roll up, the car turns off and you hear the car door open and slam. You hear the sound of the ocean and the sound of walking. The walking stops and there are seagulls and the sound of a ship in the background. Yay, you are at the beach! I did this for my project because I love the beach, and the sound of the waves and the ocean is my favorite sound in the world so I had to use it for my project.
The sounds I recorded myself were the flip flops walking (inside and outside), the door slamming, and the car.
Attributions:
Ship Sound: By milo (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=444) ship2_bergen.aif (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23722)
Car Highway Sounds: By FreqMan (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=92661) cars pass by.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=20049)
Ocean Sounds: By Dynamicell (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=47052) Water_Miami_beach_Atlantic.aif (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=17552)
Seagull Sounds: By hazure (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=30150)
seagull.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23707)
Outdoor Sounds: By pcaeldries (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=97826) CountrySideSummerEvening.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23131)
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Janet Cardiff Response
The Janet Cardiff radio interview seemed to me to be more of an audio infomercial. The purpose was obviously to promote and advertise Janet Cardiff' walks. The interview allowed you to learn a little bit about Cardiff's intentions and how she acheives her goals. The things I learned from the interview that I thought were interesting were how she records the sounds so that they feel more intimate to the listener. I like how she described how she makes you feel like the sounds are actually surrounding you. She says she acheived this because her recordings allow her to magnify and enhance the sounds that may otherwise be ignored if you were walking on your own outside. I also thought it was interesting how she said that she researches the history of the areas she takes you through on her walks, because it allows her to give the location its own personal touch. The thing I do not like about her walks is her voice. Her "dead flat tone of her voice" to me is kind of spooky. To me, it seems like the voice of somebody who would be doing a reading of a sexy romance novel... These were my thoughts after listening to the interview.
In response to Janet Cardiff's project for Whitechapel Gallery in London, she definetly uses the three level spatial structure. Throughout the peice, her voice is always in the foreground, normally in conjunction with footsteps. Sometimes though, she brings other sounds into the foreground. I also like how she brings sounds that were once in the background to the middle ground as you seemingly get closer to that noise. When she first goes outside, she starts with distant waves and voices in the background, birds in the middle ground, and footsteps in the foreground. Then she has a random helicopter come to the foreground for a few seconds. She then continues to have footsteps in the foreground. Then random weird music makes its way to the foreground. Birds continue to be in the middle ground. Then new weird music begins in the foreground. Footsteps stop and the birds move into the background. Dogs bark in the middleground. Footsteps start again and move back to the foreground and the music stops. You then hear an airplane in the foreground and birds in the middle ground. A voice giving a lecture then becomes the foreground. Footsteps start walking away from the lecture and a childs voice becomes the foreground and then fades away. Waves that are in the background slowly get louder as footsteps continue. The waves then become the middle ground and then fades away to the background. Running water then becomes the foreground and then footsteps. Waves then make there way back to the foreground. Footsteps start up again as the foreground, waves become the middle ground. The footsteps, still foreground, sound different as if they are crunching leaves in a forest. There is an ambient background. Birds then begin to chirp in the background. Suddenly you are inside and you hear footsteps on wood. A machine recording becomes the foreground. Then you are back outside and waves and birds become the middle ground. Birds fade to the background. Music then starts and stop. Footsteps continue to be the foreground. Waves become louder and go to the middle ground and then the foreground. Birds are in the middle ground and waves eventually fall back to the background. As previously stated, Janet's voice is always part of the foreground. Sometimes she has a man whispering that becomes part of the foreground. I think that her use of three-level spatial structure allows the listener to gain a sense of distance. The louder the particular sounds, the closer they feel. When the sounds are in the background, you can tell that you are far away from them. Also, after listening to the whole walk, her voice actually kind of grows on you. Ha!
In response to Janet Cardiff's project for Whitechapel Gallery in London, she definetly uses the three level spatial structure. Throughout the peice, her voice is always in the foreground, normally in conjunction with footsteps. Sometimes though, she brings other sounds into the foreground. I also like how she brings sounds that were once in the background to the middle ground as you seemingly get closer to that noise. When she first goes outside, she starts with distant waves and voices in the background, birds in the middle ground, and footsteps in the foreground. Then she has a random helicopter come to the foreground for a few seconds. She then continues to have footsteps in the foreground. Then random weird music makes its way to the foreground. Birds continue to be in the middle ground. Then new weird music begins in the foreground. Footsteps stop and the birds move into the background. Dogs bark in the middleground. Footsteps start again and move back to the foreground and the music stops. You then hear an airplane in the foreground and birds in the middle ground. A voice giving a lecture then becomes the foreground. Footsteps start walking away from the lecture and a childs voice becomes the foreground and then fades away. Waves that are in the background slowly get louder as footsteps continue. The waves then become the middle ground and then fades away to the background. Running water then becomes the foreground and then footsteps. Waves then make there way back to the foreground. Footsteps start up again as the foreground, waves become the middle ground. The footsteps, still foreground, sound different as if they are crunching leaves in a forest. There is an ambient background. Birds then begin to chirp in the background. Suddenly you are inside and you hear footsteps on wood. A machine recording becomes the foreground. Then you are back outside and waves and birds become the middle ground. Birds fade to the background. Music then starts and stop. Footsteps continue to be the foreground. Waves become louder and go to the middle ground and then the foreground. Birds are in the middle ground and waves eventually fall back to the background. As previously stated, Janet's voice is always part of the foreground. Sometimes she has a man whispering that becomes part of the foreground. I think that her use of three-level spatial structure allows the listener to gain a sense of distance. The louder the particular sounds, the closer they feel. When the sounds are in the background, you can tell that you are far away from them. Also, after listening to the whole walk, her voice actually kind of grows on you. Ha!
First Audio Exercise
My Exercise Here! Yay!
For my peice, I overlapped the sound of walking on a wet street during a thunderstorm, and ended with the opening of a door as if you are going inside, and when the door slams, the thunder and rain noises arent as loud.
Credits:
Samples used from Freesound
January 25, 2007
By artifact (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=229220)
lightning_strike.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=29675)
By acclivity (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=37876)
Puddle1.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24206)
By FreqMan (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=92661)
011 Door opens and shuts.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23168)
For my peice, I overlapped the sound of walking on a wet street during a thunderstorm, and ended with the opening of a door as if you are going inside, and when the door slams, the thunder and rain noises arent as loud.
Credits:
Samples used from Freesound
January 25, 2007
By artifact (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=229220)
lightning_strike.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=29675)
By acclivity (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=37876)
Puddle1.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24206)
By FreqMan (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=92661)
011 Door opens and shuts.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23168)
Audio Journey Project
For my audio journey project, I want to do a journey from the airport to the beach. I want it so seem like you are flying to a tropical place and end up on the beach.
So far, the sounds I intend to use include:
Airport Sounds
Airplane sounds
Walking sounds
Car sounds
Beach sounds
Seagull sounds
These are just a few ideas. Im not exactly sure what sound I will create yet.. I have been thinking hard though. I think Im just going to take it peice my peice and see where I end up!
So far, the sounds I intend to use include:
Airport Sounds
Airplane sounds
Walking sounds
Car sounds
Beach sounds
Seagull sounds
These are just a few ideas. Im not exactly sure what sound I will create yet.. I have been thinking hard though. I think Im just going to take it peice my peice and see where I end up!
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