Sunday, September 28, 2008
Response to “The Art of Noise” by: David Toop
Toop recognizes Rusollo’s vision of raw unabashed sound as a medium for art, and industrial and common sounds/noises found in everyday life suitable to make original music. The conflict now is where do you draw the line from noise to music. Toop has observed that the music is such a large medium of entertainment that creating sound art would just get caught up in the mix and assimilated into the music genre. Therefore forcing sound artists to create interactive sound art pieces. An example is Janet Cardiffs’s “A Missing Voice” which is interactive sound art in east London. Cardiff takes you on a tour throughout the streets while your listening to her voice through a CD and a walkman, sounds of the area conflict with the sounds Cardiff experienced while recording in the same area creating disorientation, while telling you a story. Thus sound art has expanded in its own realm and genre since Rusollo’s exclamation.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Sound Walk 1
1. Yes we found places where we could listen, they were in residential area’s, quiet roads.
2. The group couldn’t move without making a sound, but individually yes it was possible to move without noise.
3. When I plugged my ears everything was muffled and I only could make out the low pitch noises like car engines and the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees. When I removed my hands from my ears all the sound came back and was enhanced for a while because of its absence.
4. I listened to the scrape of my groups feet on the ground, and to the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees, once we got near the campus church bells could be heard in the distance.
5. I was able to differentiate between all of the sounds, it was fairly obvious to find where each sound came from within our area.
6. Human sounds were sounds our group made as we walked and children we walked past playing in a playground, mechanical sounds consisted of mostly cars driving past, the size of the car determined the sound and pitch it made as it drove by, natural sounds came from the wind blowing, I listened for birds but didn’t hear any.
7. Extremely close sounds are easier to describe in detail, they are very vivid, sounds in the distance are more vague and harder to pin point and describe.
8. The wind was one of the most noticeable sounds, as it blew past my head I could heard it especially when I had my ears covered. Otherwise I noticed the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees.
9. I never thought to intervene and create my own noise, but after the sound walk I have gained ideas for the second walk with the microphones.
10. The sounds I listened to are very common, paying closer attention to them didn’t necessarily make them more special to me but I realized that I appreciate more sounds over others. For instance I enjoy the sound of children playing and the sound of sprinkler water hitting the sidewalk more than the sound of traffic.
11. The sidewalk experience I think will raise my alertness of sounds and sound quality as a film/video maker.
2. The group couldn’t move without making a sound, but individually yes it was possible to move without noise.
3. When I plugged my ears everything was muffled and I only could make out the low pitch noises like car engines and the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees. When I removed my hands from my ears all the sound came back and was enhanced for a while because of its absence.
4. I listened to the scrape of my groups feet on the ground, and to the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees, once we got near the campus church bells could be heard in the distance.
5. I was able to differentiate between all of the sounds, it was fairly obvious to find where each sound came from within our area.
6. Human sounds were sounds our group made as we walked and children we walked past playing in a playground, mechanical sounds consisted of mostly cars driving past, the size of the car determined the sound and pitch it made as it drove by, natural sounds came from the wind blowing, I listened for birds but didn’t hear any.
7. Extremely close sounds are easier to describe in detail, they are very vivid, sounds in the distance are more vague and harder to pin point and describe.
8. The wind was one of the most noticeable sounds, as it blew past my head I could heard it especially when I had my ears covered. Otherwise I noticed the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees.
9. I never thought to intervene and create my own noise, but after the sound walk I have gained ideas for the second walk with the microphones.
10. The sounds I listened to are very common, paying closer attention to them didn’t necessarily make them more special to me but I realized that I appreciate more sounds over others. For instance I enjoy the sound of children playing and the sound of sprinkler water hitting the sidewalk more than the sound of traffic.
11. The sidewalk experience I think will raise my alertness of sounds and sound quality as a film/video maker.
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