Process Documentation
I wanted to try audio because I had done videos for the last couple of projects. I started thinking about what processes I could document only using audio, and I decided that I wanted to try a challenge. I wanted to document me doing a process, but not describe it at all. I wanted to see if I could document it and have people understand what was happening only through the audio of the actions. I'm not sure if it succeeded but I captured me doing the activity and I tried to accentuate the sounds and activities so people could understand.
As per the Barney article I also thought about authenticity and played around with the specific action I chose to do. I haven't put it in here because I don't want anyone to look at this text and guess what I did before they hear it. Most of the process that I did went into thinking about the specific action I wanted to do. Now that it's done and finished the questions I had were about what the audio shows about me and who I am. I enjoyed doing it though.
It's great that you wanted to challenge yourself and continue learning by choosing a different medium for this project. I like the way you pointed out how the choice in medium can lead to questions about ourselves and what and how we are documenting and presenting. The way you presented your piece in class was interesting and I noticed how it influenced the way we listened to the audio clip. We were no longer listening for the sake of experiencing and consuming it, but we listened to figure out what we were hearing. I wonder if using an exercise similar to this, creating different sounds with different materials, could be useful to students in a class about soundscapes, and also in a discussion about authenticity and reality vs what is presented.
ReplyDeleteDaniel, it was an interesting process engaging with your piece and deciphering the action you were performing. I found it very interesting that you played around with authenticity with creating the sound effects and trying (and in my case successfully) to convince us that you were eating cereal. This reminds me of even the film and advertising industry and how visuals and sounds are often fabricated and contrived. Do you think that this makes the experience or piece inauthentic?
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