First Audio Exersize

Here is my first audio project using audacity. It is about a thirty second clip combining 4 different sounds found on The Freesound Project.

Rhythmic background sound from crushed bits
Door opening and shutting and corn flake chewing from FreqMan
Footsteps from Jake Williams

Audio Journey Concept Proposal

The concept for my audio journey is symboliclly traveling through the mind, beginning with a chaotic state of mind and moving towards a peaceful one. The concrete sounds used for the beginning and ending points are a forest fire sound and a quiet summer evening. Both of these clips have already been found on the Freesound Project. To show movement in the journey, I will be looking to fade in and out of different sound environments with a variety of different types of doors opening and closing. Things that I would like to record in class time would mostly be these various door sounds. I also would like to record some typing and perhaps some of the ambiant sounds found in the halls of Monty, such as the noise of the coke machine or a noisey light(there is one outside the classroom 151) I hope that by patching together seemingly unrelated sound environments it will reproduce the thought processes of an excited/hyperactive/agitated mind that is attempting to find calm.

Sound Art Blog

I looked at the work of Gregory Whitehead. I especially found two pieces, Radio Degree Zero and Eva Can I Stab Bats In a Cave?, particularly interesting. The meditative backwards and foward mantra of Radio Degree Zero created an odd sense of calm. Each pause gave emphasis to the individual words which emphasized the entire phrase even while the words seemed unconnected. In Eva Can I Stab Bats In a Cave? Whitehead uses an altered series of the palindrome phrase to form a palindrome, as if each phrase style is a letter. Primarily, I was interested in the comical value of this piece, which is punctuated with large gasps between phrases. Overall, I find Whitehead's work interesting because of his focus on a voice, albeit digitized, as an means of artistic expression.
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Question: Is the idea of 'newness' (progress/avante-garde) merely a construct? Is it possible to have anything new in art?
Response: The combination and juxtaposition of objects pulled from various sources can be reformed into something that can be concidered art. For example, by using a combination of objects in a setting, one is able to create art 'theatre'.
Art: Mike Kelly
Test Room Containing Multiple Stimuli Known to Elicit Curiosity
Photo with Description
Mike Kelly's Book Minor Histories in which he describes Test Room

From Rhizome.org

Private City
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