Inanimate Object World

This is the project that I posted for the contest on the category about inanimate object world. I named it "odd friends." I hope you like it. Please feel free to leave me a comment on 1000worth.com

Burroughs Cut-Up

Have you ever dreamed that you are reading something and though the words on the paper do not make much sense, they are still understandable? This was my first impression on Burroughs' cut-up method. Before reading about cut-ups, I had no idea that there are artists out there who treat words as collages. Connecting words and/or phrases that come from different sources, but share the same topic, result in a somewhat unconscious style of reading. Because cut-ups describe certain subjects from many point of views, cut-ups can easily encompass every sensory detail.

To me, the cut-up method is creative, clever, blurry, confusing and yet makes perfect sense in an unexplainable way. It is also similar to appropriation and sampling, where the artist creates a new project by using elements from other existing art work. Since one cannot predict what the next text in cut-ups is going to be about, cut-ups can be mysteriously captivating for one to simply keep on reading and follow where the words lead.

Frighteningly however, I wonder if the artist can abuse the cut-up method by manipulating the readers' minds to unconsciously believe in something that the artist wants them to, whether it may be true or spurious.

Dada

This art work by Man Ray, looks soft and dreamy. The camera films are loosely twirled around a dark center and none of the pictures in the films are clear. Instead, they are ghost-like and could be seen through like gelatin. It seems as if there are sweet, sad memories behind this art work.

This other photograph by Man Ray about a woman smoking cigarrette, is taken at an angle straight above the woman's head. This angle makes it difficult to recognize the woman's face, but makes it easy to see the action that the woman is doing; smoking a cigarrette. This picture also has a dreamy look.

Man Ray's silver gelatin silver print technique, rayograph, makes me feel like I am in a trance and am going through someone's secret memories. The soft curves, the gentle lighting, the blurry images, and the angle chosen for each image, make Man Ray's work truly unique and simply beautiful.

Journey audio

This is my journey project, and according to what I planned at first, it turned out to be what I expected. I was excited working on it, and was able to find more sounds along the way. This audio is about waking up from a peaceful sleep in the morning, getting ready to go to work, and then finally arriving at the chaotic atmosphere of the city. I hope you enjoy it. journey audio

There are three sounds that I recorded myself: The background piano music, the door opening and closing before going into the car, and my voice saying "I'm going to be late..." in the end of the audio. The rest of the sounds are from findsound.com.
These are the link to the sounds that I got when I typed in the words as they appear.

shower sound - http://new.wavlist.com/soundfx/019/bath-shower.wav

shower curtain - http://sep800.mine.nu/files/sounds/showercurtain.wav

birds - http://www.ample-edition.com/sounds/Nachtig2.wav

car start - http://sep800.mine.nu/files/sounds/carstart2.wav

coffee maker - http://www.ringelkater.de/Sounds/2geraeusche_gegenst/kaffeemaschine.wav

drinking coffee - http://www.albertweb.de/Sound-Spiele/HeisserKaffee.wav

yawning - http://www.tplm.com/wav/fatigue3.wav

alarm clock - http://new.wavlist.com/tv/089/407_alarm.wav

footsteps: - http://apeyman.free.fr/sfx/humains/pas.wav

restaurant (this is for the sound of the crowd in the city) - http://todos.zonebg.com/img/soundfiles/Restaraunt.wav

traffic and honking noises - http://amazingsounds.iespana.es/trafficjam.wav

door key - http://www.littlemusicclub.com/doors/doorkey.wav

opening and closing car door - http://vienvoir.free.fr/sons/bruitages/009_opening%20closing%20car%20do~.wav

keys- http://64.41.69.21/technical/sample_rates/keys_1622ds.wav

cars - http://www.bmwworld.com/images/sounds/racecar_passing6.wav

motorbike - http://www.soundbite.co.nz/sbites/mbike.AIF

kitchen drawer - http://vienvoir.free.fr/sons/bruitages/018_kitchen%20drawer.wav

Response to the Janett Cardiff radio interview

Listening to Cardiff’s radio interview, I was fascinated by the techniques and reasons that Cardiff uses for creating the different kinds of sounds. Then as I loosened myself and listened to Cardiff’s recording I could imagine myself following her voice and taking a walk with her. I liked that the events happen in chronological order, starting from walking out the door to the garden, and seeing things along the way. The sound of the birds and the footsteps in the background enrich the environment, while Cardiff’s voice in the foreground stands out and makes sense of what is naturally going on.

To me, Cardiff excellently uses the three-spatial structure in balancing the sounds to make them real. Moving the sounds around, or bringing them from a distance, Cardiff effectively adds more depth in creating a setting of where the listener is and motions that are going on at the moment.

Response To Soundart II

Gregory Whitehead’s radio art fascinates me about how sounds can be mixed in such a way that triggers different kinds of emotion. Whitehead’s work called, “What Words Want,” starts with a middle-aged woman’s voice teaching how to speak in a different language. It later becomes more humorous when a young man’s voice came in and started making fun of different languages. Towards the end, the mood of the radio art becomes mysterious as the speaker whispers softly until his voice gradually dies away. Gregory’s radio art gave me a new idea, that different kinds of sounds can create different kinds of moods. The proper order and length of sounds can leave an effective impact on any listener.

First Audio Project

This is my first audio project which is a mixture of a rap, a subway, and a microphone in a saxphone. I played with the volume, the speed, and moved around the sound from the left to the right speakers. I hope you enjoy listening to it.
First Audio Project