Week 4
This week we where tasked with reflecting on the spaces that mean somethings to us. I found this to be a relaxing task and it was nice to into words what a place meant to me in words. It was inspiring to talk about my personal connectoin with my own world, it was nice to share a peice of myself to my enviroment. I did find it difficult to talk so personally in a task but it was good practise.
I went to Telegraph Hill skatepark near me and took the following recording.
Week 4
Hildegarde Westercamp
After to listening to this sound walk it really inspired me. She’s doing a voice over on a beach, she tell a story about the animals and things she can hear in the background. She used foley to portray things w aren’t suppose to hear. Like the scallops moving on the rock front. I really liked the way she talks about these sounds as her “dreams”. It has given me some insight into what I would like to do for my final year piece.
It’s a nice way of showing sounds that the human can’t usually pick up on, a deeper insight into what certain things should sound like. It really reminds me of the David Attenborough documentaries.
Week 4 independent study
Rhizome relates to a network of multiplicities that are not arborescent or tree like. The art that comes from rhizome lacks structure and it has no beginning and end. It relates to post-modernism because of its anti-form and playful schematics and it breaks from modernisms purposeful design.
Rhizome interested me because i like the contrast of binarise and linarism which relates to a pair of contrasting opposites. Also how the free form art looks on the page and a story with no end.
Week 3
What I heard:
This piece interested me initially because of the lack of tone or pitch in the singer who is seen throughout the piece. Its interesting to see the unconventional and unrythmic tones that are at use. Its quite jarring to listen and at times it was intense and scary. It really peaked my interest because of its intense and emotional context.
The context behind this peice is that Schoenberg wanted to portray a story told from a concentration camp in Warsaw in the second world war from the perspective of the prisoners that where being held there. He wanted the singer not to use and type of pitch and the german officers where represnted by the jarring orchestral sound pallet. Which explains the jarring and sharp tones that are used in the piece.
Arnold Schoenberg started the serialism movement and his work A Survivor from Warsaw is a great example of the change in the tonal centre in the twentieth century which was seen in the modernism movement at this time.