final project

need data dvd of all files. and playable dvd with menue

ritual and transfigured time. 5-6 minutes, must deal with time and ritual

begining to think about waiting in line as a ritual. set up where camera is held by someone waiting in the line so viewer is brought into the piece.

Melissa- Gary Hill- around and about. text and repetiton to emphasis. consistency in words. allows audience to put themselves into piece because actual space is never shown. uses images that were around him at the time. everyday images.

audacity

project, import audio. arrow down to change set rate. split tracks, hit arrow down and split stereo track. gain is volume and change one to left and one to right( adjust pan) . keypoint (looks like hour glass) can use for suble adjustments.

effects- fade in fade out. echo (good delay is .5 sec)

change speed

high pass and low pass filter- makes sound old timey

compressor

when sound changes it becomes a moment. seperate instances is what seperates this from western music. randomness in limits. i moment is the informal unit without direction and they tend to be the longest. structure of western music and notes represent sound but stockhuasen uses like language and composes. he makes his own notes.

3/24/10

leslie- william wegman- treat bottle. uses suspense to draw in audience. setting is bare. starts out with jar in center, it is most important. puts in jar so we know he's standing there watching the dog. passage of time is in real time, there is no editing. shot in studio, goes back to painting degree.

kirsten- joe wright- pride and prejudice. uses all natural sunlight and sounds, no editing.

The Stockhausen reading was all about moments in music. when a note is played and then stoped that is a moment. or when two things are plaed at the same time that makes 2 moments. i'm not too clear on that one though cause it seems like it would be only one moment. but there are different kinds of moment, k moment I momenrs m moments and d moments. d moments are long because they are durations, its the whole momen. m is melody and it mentioned heterophony which is many sounds. k is everything, I is directionless.
i couold understand the aspects of varied and overlapping sound because we had done that in the fragmentted sound project but most of what the reading was about went over my head. m and k moments are ok but duration i dont really get, is it just how long one moment lasts? or is it all moments until its done? i moments seem to make sense too, just static and random sounds.. i think. but anyway the m and k i liked reading about because of the heterophony. for the fragment project we used all those sounds and i really liked it. i wanna know more about those aspects. i think i and d go with it all too but d seems more metaphorical than actual sound where as m, k, and i are actual sounds

Emily sneeden- sped up voice in right musical moments. very rythmic and musical but not as if its boring. stays fresh even though its repeating. 2nd piece has building up. slow loudness like approaching doom. mix of classical and urban.

Ryan- very phantom of the opera, 2nd is very musical without having music. repeats and placement is good. it gets shorter and shorter and so sounds create pace.

Joel- used music almost exsclusively. one phrase from celine deion song. twilight zone. start out with recognizable piece. pushes chaos and annoyance.

kelsey olsen- old fashioned radio commercial is nice touch. languages add another level. very humorous.

leslie- very humorous catch line but could do more with it. world ending could have been played into it. 2nd mostly sound affects to imagine beach. waves crashing. but is rainstorm in car.

nicole- seems like satire on society. twitter. 2nd sounds like book on tape but with building chaos chorus. could had more tweeting, that was good idea. different kinds and sounds of tweets.

Kristen- music for the first one but looped in a way that u wouldnt notice. the song chosen is the kind of song that repeats alot. 2nd. HAWAII music and dripping water. ucalaylee.

katie- looped opera. 2nd was great. german recording of full opera. 2nd beats only larinx and throat go play on idea of utilitarionism.

Gabby- betty boop song was fantastic. 2nd was very solemn and ominous.

sarah- use of music and spanish. 2nd, very techno-y and futuristic, almost like chase music. 1st play on her dreams about home. heart beat added to be calming and upsetting.

wav is for mac. open folder for downloads. save as source, import to audacity. Project, import audio. high light with curser then hit command c and then command v and paste to new track. generate silence, 30 sec then wont default to left. project remove track and first track is deleted. file and save to folder as wav. 44100 hrtz. press shift and move up to select multiple tracks

FRagmented sound project

sound art. reconstructing found sound. 2 loops between 1 and 2 mins long. create desktop folder where can store sounds, import into audacity and work with them. stereo sound- hear it around and not just on one side. mono- one side.

Christian Marclay- uses sounds people dont like to hear

steve reich- its gonna rain- phrase "its gonna rain" over and over

carlheinz stockhausen- helicopter string quartet. hymnem (chaos and order)

henry chopin- throat power

Presentations. 3/15/10

Anthony- Errol Morris- Documentary series called first person. one analyzed is about Antonio Mendez master of disguise called The Little Gray Man. used technique where put camera right in subjects face so it looks like he's talking to the viewer. created devise that let subject and filmer see each other during interview called inter-atron. Going with title, background is completely gray and he is wearing all black to make nothing stand out, he is little gray man because nothing is very noticeable. supposed to be in first person but there are many shots that contradict that. side shots, off center shots, pulled out shots. dates are kept ambiguous except for laos 1971. so nothing to nail this man down with because is all ambiguous and open. (more gray man). Mendez is constant source of information, like spies he is the source.

Kelsey- Pierre Huyghe- No Moment- video where nothing happens. Room and music do not go together. Lights are indicator of time, gets slowly darker. rule of 3rds, lamp chair and let other lamp. banister seperates viewer from room. curtains move. action on tv moves very fast. moment occurres when viewer realizes there is no moment. allegory for irony and how americans watch tv. everything in room is old but music is new.

first group- emily sneeden, kt stemper, kirsten anderson- all very humorous. mouth olympics very funny. took same subject but all used very different stylistic takes on it. mouth olympics was good but 3rd sequence not as strong. play on peoples fascination with olympics. parody of winter games. speak easy to satirize the people outside turlington. when drunk u cant even communicate so how is it a social lubricant? people not talking to each other but at each other. if only see someones lips moving could they say whatever they wanted? all only girls lips to show how men never hear what girls are saying, they only see their lips. works in how video is loud and then quiets down only to get very loud again at the end.

group 2- melissa, kelsey, anthony- music change didnt signify a change in action. questions of where we sleep. what is shelter? gueinne pig dreams thing confusing. shelter one works bc of trying different locations and none work. work loses a lot with the beer pong. more about what leads to sleep. kelsey recorded what was happening while it was going on. sounds could be guinnie pig or sleeping person. repeated a lot. going for mindset of 10 year old who doesnt want to sleep in his bed. ending in bed would have added more closure.

group 4- gabby, olga, joel-lighting was main issue for all 3 videos. clock was issue and so was the time span. olga's was amazing.

group5- ryan, sara, william- very hard to follow, needed titles or the event scores to clarify. all seem to be about nothing. very hard to watch but in a good way. watching sara watch nothing was very cool. great concept. nothing can be nothing cause you're actually doing something.

Dvd studio pro. simple button (right hand corner) put video files in box on lower left. dvd with menu and dvd track. add menu. right click it and hit first play. click video in box and drag to track in upper left. go to shapes and drag over simple button onto menu. unclick motion and set video. center is the button, click on center. go to colors to adjust the menu. set target for button. see on box that menu connects to the track. choose Track, endjump, menu. remote control, make menu button go back to menu. double click on menu and can write in name