Contrusted Sound Space Final Thoughts

So I presented on Monday night it was interesting, a few things came up. We had to switch to a different area so my idea of dividing the class into four groups didnt work because the location did not really permit it to be done. Essentially I was trying to use the walls as echos but it didnt work in the new space and sort of worked in the old but it is what it is.

Additionally it didnt really seem like anyone really got what I was trying to say with the piece. I feel that parts were right one and others not so much. The placement of speakers needed to be further apart for people to get two distinct sounds.

I wanted the idea of difference and similarity to come across, however I didnt take into consideration that people dont listen as hard to music as I normally do that I focus on different things a lot, or it could be that I have heard the peice so many times that it sounds different to me and i get completely different things out of it.

But i digress the piece was inherently right after to me felt as a failure but looking back I feel I got the reaction I could have expected from it. You never learn if you always get it right and I feel that is something that is happening time in and time out for this class, but time to continue and start thinking about the next project. Ryan out.

Constructed Sound Space 4

So I am still working on this trying to put final touches on the piece and audacity has the audacity to continuously crash on me argh. I think this is due to the fact that I have so many different files on one audacity project, so I will just export it all as a single wav file and hopefully that will solve the problem. It has happened five times in the past hour of me working on this.

I decided to add more voices and be relatively flux-us in my approach of the placement of the overlapping sounds and have decided to allow them to "fall" as they will with only changing some if it is extremely dis-connective in my opinion. I am choosing this approach since adding the random element helps to high light my point and I feel the process should reflect this and besides I felt the random placement sounded more genuine and original in its sounding than the placement that I have at this stage.

Additionally I would like to point out that this is taking a hell of a lot longer than I anticipated to complete. Sound is such a time investment. To point out I have yet to carve my linoleum for my figure ground printing class. Hopefully I can finish this all.


To view the original basic version without the added voices etc. of the song please visit:

http://www.ryanrudock.com/Basic.mp3

Constructed Sound Space 3

So I am listening to the song I created and this is getting more and more interesting. I am having trouble deciding whether to have more chaos included in the piece or have it more serene. I feel like parts of it are like the second loop and the first loop from the previous sound projects, however the second the longer intervals is the one most prominent in this piece. So I am not sure whether to add more voices or leave it simplified.

The concept I don't think will be affected with either change since the idea of the piece is to have various interpretations and reading from what you get from something depending on yourself.

I finally figured out the speaker placement and audience placements. Essentially I will divide everyone into seven groups and place the speakers facing the hallway opposed to each other. Hopefully everyone gets different parts of the compilation and together as a group they will together experience the full range of the compilation.

On a side note it has been fun experimenting with the stereo and I might have gotten carried away with the stereo aspect but that is part of this process so I feel I am working at an appropriate level.

Constructed Sound Space 2

So I am still here in Norman staring at the space trying to get ideas and playing around with some of the different options in the audacity program. So far I get an eerie vibe from the hallway I get a dark view of it even though the lights are fairly bright. I decided on focusing on the hallway aspect more than the elevator.

I basically have chosen several songs that I own that are fairly new to me and have some personal significance and am arranging them together interweaving different elements from each. The problem right now is that they don't sound cohesive and am in the process of attempting to make it sound like it all goes together.

I brought my desktop speakers here to try out the sound however the plug is way to far away from where the elevator is so I will just play it figuring out how to place them in the hall the best I can with what I have on me.

Constructed Sound Space 1

So I am here sitting in the space where the sound is suppose to take place for Monday's class. I noticed the plug is really far from the source so I hope the extension cord being brought is long enough.

I'm still not sure exactly what I want to do with this project so I decided to come here and see what the space is telling me to do. The space selected for our group is not one in which i would have chosen so this makes me frustrated and yet happy because it forces me to do something I normally would not have done.

I am thinking of having the two speakers far from each other but am not sure how long each speaker's cord would be. Additionally I am thinking of what concept I should have, I settled towards the idea that each person's experience and relationship and interpretation should be different depending upon various circumstances so I am thinking about moving people around during the piece to highlight that.

Stockhausen Reading

I find this essay interesting in the sense of that he explains things around us that occur all the time and brings them to the forefront of our thought and helps us to realize these things for helping us to design a score for this project. The moments idea I focused on the idea and see the benefit of the division of a moment by quickly or slowly for something. In the project about sound we are composing now I believe I will incorporate both a slow progression and abrupt ones. So I will work to have a heterophonic portions in the sound.

Also just to point out I had to tilt my head to read the articles until I figured out how to flip each page. A lot of the process and technical references to music I did not understand that well and had to look up several references to just find out they mean different things relating to music.

Student Presentations #4

Anthony:
Errol Morris
The Little Grey Man, talking about spying and dressing up in a dance. Former CIA operation officer disguises. Not sure how this relates to art. So this then in in an interview format. Dull surroundings. Camera angles vary. Use where the equipment is shown. Absences of information about when certain events and time occur. Sources of information primarily from the one person. Quirky and odd. I will probably have to watch and look at this piece closer to understand fully what is going on.

Kelsey:
Pierre Hugh
No Moment, music with a scene of tv and bed shown, seems like a hotel room maybe. TV turns on. Lights up on the grounds. Music continues to play and then softens. Nothing happens ever. Humor involved. The sound and the music clashed a lot. Was interesting. Lights slowly dim to show time. The music acts as a distraction from the room and what is going on in it.