tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post5481697086825806959..comments2012-09-15T00:21:51.088-05:00Comments on FILM 116: Reflective Response #2 (Sound)Glenn Bachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623252725909826749noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-83631403101435460032008-04-19T20:21:00.000-05:002008-04-19T20:21:00.000-05:00I chose Gary Ferrington’s “On A Clear Day I Can He...I chose Gary Ferrington’s “On A Clear Day I Can Hear Forever” because I was intrigued by the title and was interested in reading something written with a story like quality as compared to a scholarly article.<BR/> In this piece Ferrington goes in depth to describe the rich soundscape that he perceives from his apartment window. He talks about the morning hours as being a “safe”, quiet time where one can open the window and blend the outside and inside noises. Ferrington describes the human noises as they start with the garbage truck and progress through the day with airplanes, church bells, and people talking as they have coffee. He is thankful for how high up his window is because it makes it reachable by many distant sounds. After describing the bustling sounds around him, Ferrington says the sound that impresses him the most is in winter when snow falls and the traffic stops and it is totally quiet.<BR/> This article is an example of how beautiful the world around you is if you actually look at it. Ferrington is describing sounds he hears from his apartment window, sounds that he has paid the utmost attention to and it has rewarded him with an awesome view/understanding of the sonic world around him. As an artist it should be my goal to try and find beautiful things that are right in front of me, just like Ferrington.Jack Lawlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16775523131340153269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-38697884642346480322008-02-19T14:30:00.000-06:002008-02-19T14:30:00.000-06:00I chose the Delehanty article, "Soundings". Exclus...I chose the Delehanty article, "Soundings". Exclusively for the quote, "Sound announced that human experience, ever changing in time and space-the substance of life itself-had become both the subject and object of art." It is hard to imagine when sound and art, the multi- media experience had to go through an evolutionary process. It seems as though sound and the visual is and was a marriage even in preconception. And not only was there an experimental and evolutionary process there was a point in which artists and "musicians" were at odds with the idea of a symbiosis. As the article states.<BR/><BR/>The article itself is journey through the duality that sound and "art" had throughout history. Where the ideas of visual art, "the factual description of objective reality to a new and third realm that mediated between the outer world of phenomena and the inner world of the spirit", did not allow sound or song into this mantra. Only until true experimentation and acceptance of the true form of sound did harmony ensue. This is not to say that sound and visual harmony was not predicted, the real argument was how to categorize sound in the ethos of of the representational. Can sound represent or portray in the same way as visual art? And through the descriptions of experimentation and tedium that quite a few artists accomplished we can honestly say "no". It is of a higher concept. "The composer reveals the essence of the world and pronounces the most profound wisdom in the language that his reason cannot understand; he is like a mesmerized somnambulist who reveals secrets about things that he knows nothing about when he is awake." And me for one can wax philosophical about sound concepts and perception for days, but it is not my point to reiterate myself.<BR/><BR/>I appreciate this study for a number of reasons. I have been a noise musician for many a number of years. And in this culture a good cross section of performers truly believe that there is a sense of modern day composition that holds to the beliefs of a noise renaissance. The idea is to experiment completely. For good or bad, you are not the musician, but are merely along for the ride. Only when one is finished can you observe what you have done, with the clear mind of not remembering even being there for the recording. Furthermore, experiencing the process many times, and fresh and new each time. And that is why there are more creators of experimental and noise then there are buyers or listeners. The idea here being "In this realm, compounded in the artist's mind of physical and metaphysical reality, the once discrete, static relation among artist, art object, and viewer began to quiver and resound. The artist, once merely a craftsman, became a creator. The onlooker, once solely a passive observer, became the artist's collaborator. The work of art, once silent, permanent, and timeless, became a hybrid object that began to resonate in a third realm beyond the worlds of illusion and reality."mike hodzinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05951606960888608874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-65076758891222278362008-02-19T12:30:00.000-06:002008-02-19T12:30:00.000-06:001. I chose Gary Ferrington's "On A Clear Day I Ca...1. I chose Gary Ferrington's "On A Clear Day I Can Hear Forever". I chose this article because I have recently moved to Riverwest from a suburb in Oak Creek. As one might guess, the differences in enviroment and noise traffic is dramatic. When I read this article, Ferrington's point on noise of the city and the disappearance at certain times was something I could identify with because Riverwest becomes quite peaceful and quiet at 3 in the morning.<BR/><BR/>2. Ferrington's first point in the article is that he identifies the chaotic array of sounds or noise that one can hear during a busy day in the city. Ferrington identifies many of the noises that I hear in my neighborhood. However, Ferrington points out that at certain times at night or morning, one can hear the sounds of the city that one is unable to hear during the busy hours. <BR/><BR/>3. Ferrington's argument about the rare quietness of the city relates to my work as a media artist because during my walks recording sound, I find myself cursing the sounds of cars for disturbing really amazing sounds that I wanted to record. I found myself playing with the idea of going out at 3 in the morning or at some similar time, when no one is out, to record these sounds that are usually drown out by the business of city life.cjkaegihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06905231522833278577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-4881451721118858662008-02-18T23:54:00.000-06:002008-02-18T23:54:00.000-06:00I chose Delehanty's article because of it's interp...I chose Delehanty's article because of it's interpretation of what sound is. This appealed to me as being a new way for me to look at sound and better understand it. The article shows how sound is different than speech as it exudes emotion and speech is all about human thoughts. Music as a sound is a primary way of revealing things that we cannot explain but can still understand. The article also points out how sound can be used as a medium just like art or literature by means of the radio, telephone and recording industry. In the twentieth century sound became a way of realization through duration as it was experienced. The listener could not deny that what he or she was experiencing through the medium was effecting them over a given period of time of the experience. This gave artists a new way to generate different responses to their work. The article covers the realm of all sound: ambient, noise, music and silence. All of these, through art, show how the human existence in its own way is a work of art.<BR/><BR/>I believe that this article is going to help me greatly in the future when considering sounds to incorporate in my creative works. Also, in my drift it will give me a new way to consider which sounds I use and perhaps consider ones that I otherwise would not.jrstorfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15812996575283116998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-7194245756220732062008-02-18T18:29:00.000-06:002008-02-18T18:29:00.000-06:00I really enjoyed the article by Gary Ferrington ca...I really enjoyed the article by Gary Ferrington called, "On a Clear Day I Can Hear Forever." His discriptive words really made me hear the sounds of which he was describing. It made me listen more closely to the sounds I hear around my own apartment. Like Ferrington can tell what kind of train is going by I can tell who is entering our apartment building by how they walk up the stairs (my apartment building only has 8 tenenents including me.) I can even picture my cat knocking down the garbage can when I hear it fall.<BR/><BR/>I went on my first drift this weekend and I think I found more interesting sounds in my own house then I found outside. I wish I could have used my apartment to record sounds.mlkubehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09398669524413941688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-22943098894709601092008-02-18T18:25:00.000-06:002008-02-18T18:25:00.000-06:00Apologize for tardiness !-Joe Gilliland-Lloyd1. I ...Apologize for tardiness !<BR/><BR/>-Joe Gilliland-Lloyd<BR/><BR/>1. I selected David Toop’s article titled “The Art Of Noise” because it took on the important differences of sound art, art with sound and music including how they all should be related. Even though the article was interesting to read it still seemed to be ambiguous as to what Toop was actually saying until the end, which essentially influenced my selection. He seemed to be saying that there are indeed similarities amongst the three and there is diversity but it’s important that we stop recognizing these and enjoy the mediums for what they are. <BR/>2. Not to reiterate the last question but Toop was trying to say that are with sound, sound art and music are all different yet belong to the same form—that of sound—and should be converged into the same stratosphere—that of sound. By converging these people would come to appreciate the work put into each piece and not be hung up on whether “it’s not music” or it’s just “a bunch of random noises.” Once everyone could respect all works in their own right, they would be able to further appreciate the world of expression that sound has to offer, beyond the mainstream appeal. <BR/>3. This article is extremely relative to own practice because I’ve always considered myself as a formula-based person who doesn’t open up to abstractness of art. I view myself as a musician, web designer, graphic designer, or video editor but never fully delve into the realm of symbolism or expression, instead favoring the aspects of appealing to my audience. That is not to say, however, that I do not put heart and soul into my work but that on a consistent basis I stick to playing it safe instead of exploring. So, to answer the question simply, this article pertains to journey and constant struggle of digging deeper into a world that I’m just beginning to understand.Joe Gilliland-Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300289038897358038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-79458900125273700402008-02-18T18:18:00.000-06:002008-02-18T18:18:00.000-06:001. I chose "The Art of Noises" by Luigi Russolo be...1. I chose "The Art of Noises" by Luigi Russolo because I personally enjoy orchestrations and conjunction of sound intoambient soundscapes. Russolo seems to share this belief and feels that basic pieces with traditional instruments have become boring and predictable. Music is constantly evolving and reaching out to either new peaks or tapping into influence which has always been there yet it remained overlooked.<BR/><BR/>2. What are the main points of the essay?<BR/><BR/>This essay focuses attempts to convince the reader that modern musical orchestrations have become boring and outdated, and those who appreciate growth now look to pieces arranged from common sounds. Russolo explains that as music evolved notes were followed by chords. Musicians played chords looking for a pure and beautiful sound, but still music has not stopped evolving. Musicians bend sounds from their instrument to continuously challenge themselves and the listeners. Instruments have reached their peaks, however, and now it is time to look to common sound.<BR/><BR/>3. Sound artists are not merely required to capture common sounds as they occur, rather it is their job to challenge themselves and their listeners to hear things which they have not heard before or visualize them in a different light. As mentioned earlier, I enjoy ambient pieces made from common or electronically generated sounds. The challenge is never to be redundant and always be original.Dave Myszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00326773536159452469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-84458823362290840592008-02-18T15:24:00.000-06:002008-02-18T15:24:00.000-06:00I chose the article "On A Clear Day I Can Hear Fo...I chose the article "On A Clear Day I Can Hear Forever" by Gary Ferrington. I chose this article because I could relate to it entirely. Living on the corner of Brady and Prospect, I am almost constantly hearing noises day and night. Sometimes, however, like the author, there are moments of absolute silence and they are quite beautiful. <BR/><BR/> The article is basically about this dude who lives in a high rise apartment in a busy city and he talks about all the noises he hears all day long, like people, traffic, planes, birds, and so on. I thought it was interesting how he had picked up on airline flight schedules. <BR/> This articles relates to me as a media artist because in our first assignment we are going to be recordig sounds, and this is all about te sounds a man hears during his time in his apartment. It also relates to me personally because I hear the same sorts of sounds in my apartment and sometimes they can be inspirational. One day when I heard a very tough cold wind blowing, it encouraged me to go out and make a short horror film with my younger brothers.Dawn Borchardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883321286296951559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-25013326007173135102008-02-18T15:15:00.000-06:002008-02-18T15:15:00.000-06:001.I chose the article "listening to myself listen"...1.I chose the article "listening to myself listen" by Arden Hill. I picked this article because of his take on sounds, and their nature as a part of an overall whole, an experience, and not an individualistic entity. Sounds create variations on the ideologies of sound environments, or sonic environments, based upon personal recognition or experiences.<BR/><BR/>2.The article examines the practises of hearing versus listening. Hearing is described as an involuntary reaction to a sonic environment. Listening is direction of attention to or a focusing of specifics within a said environment and follows personal interpretation which is distinguished by individual experience. How we focus follows many variables including personal interests, skills, physical ability, and cultural standing.<BR/>Hill claims that Sonic Environments when taken in as a whole, act as an indicator of overall social condition and has the ability to connect to the listener to an environments culture. Focus within a sonic environment generally follows one of two sound variants; "acoustic warning devices" (signal sounds)which are the familiar pre-programmed sounds for which we presume and expect to hear in a given environment, and "non-signaling distractions" which are backround noises that are outside of the familiar allowing them to push to the forefront of concentration. By playin these types of sounds off the overall environment we have the ability to appreciate connections between the two. We are granted a greater appreciation of the whole when we realize that listening is choice....Choice is not static.<BR/><BR/>3. When applied as an artist this technique allows us to study an environment through sound. By examining pieces in regards to a whole it allows for the artist in his/her work to paint a more detailed picture. When one allows themselves to open up to the whole and its relationships to all its parts it grants greater understanding. This understanding can then be passed unto an audience.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13379218233147204834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-36935983132526490722008-02-18T14:59:00.001-06:002008-02-18T14:59:00.001-06:00I chose the article “Soundings” by Delehanty. Sou...I chose the article “Soundings” by Delehanty. Sound is a large aspect of filmmaking and should be greatly considered to better production. Drift 1 proves to be a task that I have not dealt with in the past in regards to sound recording. The recording of natural sounds is a task that is not easy, but can be fun. We watched a video a couple classes ago about sound recording and ambient music. The artist was partially deaf and used a different was of “listening.” She proved that sounds not only are captured with our ears, but our bodies as well. Sounds reverberate in our bones, skin, hair and throughout our body. This is an effective tool when creating both cinematic and audible projects.<BR/> The article goes in depth of the importance and correspondence between audio and the visual arts. Many different artists all over the world have dabbled with sound and visual arts dating back hundreds of years. In the most recent of centuries, technology has risen and made the recording of audio easily accessible and more prevalent. In one of the excerpts, the Futurist painter and musician Luigi Russolo states “Ancient life was all silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.” The 20th century proved its audible supremacy with popular music (vastly in America and Europe) and all of its entities. Music fused with movies, and the “plastic arts” became a large portion of cinema. I feel in my own projects, sound should be considered just as much as the visual portions. Both media correspond with each other greatly and play with the emotions vastly.Dan Bovillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16295368579898059423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-78441664385075627942008-02-18T14:59:00.000-06:002008-02-18T14:59:00.000-06:001. David Toop, The Art of Noise, is the article I ...1. David Toop, The Art of Noise, is the article I choose to write about, because I can play a couple instruments and while reading this I began to realize that when I write songs I do not look for discoveries, I look for creations. However, when I am working with sound outside of the conventional songwriting, I look more for discoveries than creations, instead of becoming the creator I become the explorer. This article brings focus to these differences.<BR/><BR/>2. This article examines the differences between sound-art and art and sound; as well as the difference between music and noise. It deals with how sound-art is something that isn't created for the soul purpose of the audiences enjoyment. Instead it is an exploration of sound which is not limited to the conventional notion of what is music.<BR/><BR/>3. This article is relevant to my practices as a media artist in the form of creating rhythmic art through editing. When editing our drifts the tendency of creating rhythm and tempo with short pieces of sound might be taken to an extreme to sound more like conventional music. Although this may be acceptable the richness and depth of my recorded audio could be sacrificed. Instead of creating art through exploration, I would be creating art through manipulation. In any case there will always be a degree of manipulation but the process of exploration would be lost.Jon Agenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00259712823794983264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-27677662841413260762008-02-18T14:57:00.000-06:002008-02-18T14:57:00.000-06:001.Gary Ferrington"On A Clear Day I Can Hear Foreve...1.Gary Ferrington"On A Clear Day I Can Hear Forever." I choose this article because it reminded me of how I felt when I moved to the city. All the deferent sounds I had never lived with before. This has happened to me before, I was born in a small town in Iowa I lived across the street from a corn field and a field were sheep grazed. Then when I was 14 I moved to Fond du Lac WI there I lived in town and experianced a whole new sound scape.<BR/><BR/>2. What I took away from reading this is that . Just like forest there are sounds in a city cars, traffic people, airplanes, that are a natural sound to that city. And that just as a bird watcher can identify a bird by its call a person who is used to the city can identify the man made sounds heard in the city.<BR/><BR/>3. This article is about sound and how sound in this case city sounds are a natural element to any place and that is why this article is important to film making sound can act as an anchor to place. <BR/><BR/>Andrew PageAndrew Pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17078206944501690151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-18825481686857679932008-02-18T14:43:00.000-06:002008-02-18T14:43:00.000-06:00I read S. Arden Hill's article, "Listening to Myse...I read S. Arden Hill's article, "Listening to Myself Listen". I was interested in writing about it because i am equally interested in our ability to direct our hearing when there are a lot of sounds and miss sounds entirely when we aren't listening for them. I never really gave a whole lot of thought to the difference between hearing sounds and listening to them either. With the drift 1 assignment, picking sounds and actually listening to them instead of merely hearing them is a huge difference.<BR/><BR/>In Hill's essay, he makes several key points that really stuck out to me. The first one being the difference between listening and hearing. This point deals mainly with how people in certain situations are hearing lots of noises, but only listening to the key sounds like oncoming traffic or sirens. Like that situation, there are many others where the sirens and traffic are the sounds that are not listened to and something else, like a friends voice is. He points out that when this is the case and you are somewhere, like a cafe, there are sonic sounds all around that you are to hear, but not listen to in order to listen to your friend.<BR/><BR/>As a media artist, i value the art of hearing a sonic environment and being able to separate and listen to specific sounds in order to fully appreciate it's beauty. In a city with so many vehicles roaring by and neighborhoods that stand silently, it's nice to be able to find sounds that appeal to me and be able to listen to them and not be overwhelmed by other noises.ajcoumbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16790055569954401464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-48882140481641068312008-02-18T14:42:00.000-06:002008-02-18T14:42:00.000-06:00The article I chose is Gary Ferrington’s On A Clea...The article I chose is Gary Ferrington’s On A Clear Day I Can Hear Forever. The reason why I am interested in the content Ferrington discusses is because in the past years before I came to America, I was living in one of the biggest city around the world, especially akin to what he describes about the sounds that belong to a harbor city. Agree to what he mentions in the first paragraph, a symbolic volume of a city is traffic and manmade sound. I feel like I was too familiar to have awareness of these two sounds around me and to elaborate each of them, and I have found some senses of awareness since read this article.<BR/><BR/>The article is mainly about all kinds of various sounds he can hear in the city and in different times/seasons, even includes the sound of silence. I noted down the sounded objects he mentions while I was reading: birds, crows, garbage truck’s engine, siren, locomotive, plane, carillon, wind…also the different human sound such as children playing and people chatting in café. The author not only mentions them, but also applies his own affection towards them. Nonetheless I am also impressed by how he identifies the silence of the city. In terms of a city, even the quietest moment has a sense of sound in it. Ferrington stresses that the silent city when it only heard singularity sounds instead of mixed sounds.<BR/><BR/>Ferrington’s idea about sound enlighten me two things. One is to reacquaint the city I came from (Hong Kong) through seeking the sound of the city. In other words, I want to reacquaint a familiar place by using hearing as the first sense, and vision comes after that. The other idea is how stillness can be portrayed in an auditory manner, particularly in terms of the stillness of a city.Colleen Kwokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09053589441226788085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-7202632097036421692008-02-18T14:41:00.000-06:002008-02-18T14:41:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.ajcoumbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16790055569954401464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-87282404038856233632008-02-18T14:37:00.002-06:002008-02-18T14:37:00.002-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Colleen Kwokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09053589441226788085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-31242523079281195272008-02-18T14:37:00.001-06:002008-02-18T14:37:00.001-06:001. I chose the article "On a Clear Day I can Hear ...1. I chose the article "On a Clear Day I can Hear Forever" by Gary Ferrington. I thought this article took a theme that we have been coming across a lot in our readings but included a lot of beautiful detail. He writes about his observations during the night when the city is winding down. He describes the sounds he hears ut more importantly the instances when the sounds cease. <BR/><BR/>2. Gary describes his home in the city where he can often find a vast selection of traffic noises outside his window. He writes about a time around 3 am in the morning when the sounds around him wind down and a quiet environment surrounds him. The sounds he recollects change from season to season. The chilly winds of winter affect how the sound enters the ears. Gary continues to describe a time when he thinks he can "hear forever". This happens when he hears the "Willamette River". This distant sound is able to make it to his ears without having to compete with the sounds of traffic. <BR/><BR/>3. This article makes me want to strive to listen at diffferent times during the day. I rarely, if ever, am up at 3 in the morning just listening to what is going on outside. I would probably be surprised at what I hear or don't hear. I'd like to investigate as to what time my street becomes silent and at what time it starts to buzz with traffic and commotion.Megan McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09835293451672330781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-9799730160438760952008-02-18T14:37:00.000-06:002008-02-18T14:37:00.000-06:001. I chose to comment on S. Arden Hill's article e...1. I chose to comment on S. Arden Hill's article entitled "Listening to Myself Listening". This was a fairly in-depth look in to something that was hard for me to distinguish before, the act of listening compared to the act of hearing. Before studying this article I, and I'm sure many others, could not really make a clear contrast between these two ideas.<BR/><BR/>2. As i said the article focuses deeply on what the difference between simply hearing, and actually listening to sounds is. Hill talks about how we hear all sorts of sounds in our daily lives, but how many of them do we hear without actually stopping to specifically listen to? The author goes on to describe listening as being triggered by a sort of sign or interruption of some sort. Say you are walking through a busy mall. You are hearing tons of different noises, but, for the most part you are just ignoring most of them. Suddenly you hear the sound of shattering glass. At this point you will most likely stop, and really tune in on where the sound came from so that you can look to see what is going on. For those first few seconds you are truly listening in-depth to find out what has happened in this unexpected, or abnormal event.<BR/><BR/>3. This article is very relevant at least to this class, if not to anyone who would be interested in looking at these differences. On our Drifts, we were supposed to listen for interesting sounds and record a variety of them to analyze later. We were supposed to go beyond the normal sounds that we are used to hearing and find a new respect for the places and sounds around us. This article really made me think about how to distinguish between listening and just hearing.Jason Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04497948463011001325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-62950504546857471372008-02-18T14:28:00.000-06:002008-02-18T14:28:00.000-06:00Eric WescottGroup 11. Identify the article you hav...Eric Wescott<BR/>Group 1<BR/><BR/>1. Identify the article you have selected and why you chose it.<BR/>Listening to Myself Listen - by S. Arden Hill<BR/><BR/>Hill focuses on the psychological reasons for why we listen the way we do. I find this level of thinking to be very interesting, informative, and sometimes baffling.<BR/><BR/>2. What are the main points of the essay?<BR/><BR/>Hill attempts to discover why some people seem to prefer the extremely loud or the extremely quiet. He mentions in his example about the loud cafe that he actually felt uncomfortable in the loud cafe because it was difficult to maintain his conversation.<BR/><BR/>No matter how interesting louder sounds can be sometimes you just become distracted by the quiet ones. His example of being engaged in the movie suddenly pulled away by the tapping of another persons foot in the theater. <BR/><BR/>We are trained (by nature and society) to give certain sounds a higher priority. When you're out on the street you will immediately respond to the honking of a car horn or the screeching of breaks.<BR/><BR/>3. How are the ideas or arguments in this article relevant to your own practice as a media artist?<BR/>From a commercial standpoint asking these types of questions is imperative to the success of your film. Keeping the audience engaged with your sound mix as well as your choices in music could be the difference between the audience tolerating your film and falling in love with it.<BR/><BR/>On a personal level I very much enjoy exploring the aspects of ourselves that tells us why we do what we do. Why does one person prefer A over B and nature vs nurture.Eric Wescotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04378330498784429842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-38827351306946521562008-02-18T14:04:00.001-06:002008-02-18T14:04:00.001-06:00After reading through a few of the sound articles,...After reading through a few of the sound articles, I chose Gary Ferrington's 'On a Clear Day I Can Hear Forever' for multiple reasons. One is it's poetic nature. There isn't any technical aspect nor are there any definitions or explanations. Just a man writing about the sounds he hears and how he reacts to them. I used to live in New York City so many of the things he writes about like 'an array of traffic and human made sounds can irritate one if allowed' definately spoke true to me because when I lived there, there was so much going on and you would walk past so many people, hear so much. One of the things I like to say is that New Yorker's like to keep to themselves, so you can walk past so many people and not be annoyed, but other days when you don't want to feel lonely you just go outside and everyone's there. That is like him and the sounds he's describing. If that makes sense.<BR/><BR/>While reading I felt that the author was trying to get that point across. We can ignore all the sounds around us and feel alone, or we can just listen and suddenly there's a world out there. Whether it be the Southern Pacific or the sound of the wind which can change with each second. <BR/><BR/>The idea of this article can help not just with art media's dealing with sound, but any media, because you can take his ideas of paying attention to the detail and "listening" beyond the obvious. In a more literal way, pertaining to film which is what I am interested in, it definately helps me appreciate and work on sound for a film. Instead of just caring about what is SEEN on screen.Daniellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18041206685446913098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-79875236219763272242008-02-18T14:04:00.000-06:002008-02-18T14:04:00.000-06:001. I chose the article by S. Arden Hill entitled "...1. I chose the article by S. Arden Hill entitled " Listening to Myself Listening". The article makes some interesting observations about how we decide to listen to what we do out of all the sounds that surround us. The sounds that we actually pay attention to in our environment may be determined by what we are doing, what we are expecting to hear, and what the sounds mean to us.<BR/><BR/>2. The author explains that the sounds that prevail to us in our sonic environments could be different form one person to the next. There are common sounds that everyone will listen to over other sounds. Warning signals or cell phones ringing alert us to take an action or mean that there is danger or some other situation that is important for us to pay attention to. Depending on what you are doing you may be listening for certain sounds and trying to exclude others from your awareness. What we may not notice sometimes is tht all of the ssounds surrounding us merge to create the background music for the sounds we are listening to in the forefront. The collage of sounds makes up our entire sonic environment and even the subtle sounds play a role in what we are focusing on or what we are not.<BR/><BR/>3. These ideas and a small exerpot from the article about how djs listen to sound relates to me as a music prducer and mixer. The exerpt exlains how a dj listens for levels and balances in sounds from different tracks, and picks out some of the subtle and some of the main sounds from the tracks to mix with each other. These ideas also play a role in how the dj picks which tracks to mix and which sound in each track to adjust or omit to create a harmonicallly balanced sonic environment for the listeners.zackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03614905858984181920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-56453689549777487392008-02-18T13:47:00.000-06:002008-02-18T13:47:00.000-06:001)The article that I chose was Hill, S. Arden "Lis...1)The article that I chose was Hill, S. Arden "Listening to Myself Listening." To be completely honest I chose this article at random but soon found that it rather intrigued me. The idea of Hill that shows the difference between hearing and listening caught me as a completely new thought. It never occurred to me that every day I’m not really listening to the world around me but rather I was only hearing it as a whole mix of sounds.<BR/>2)One of Hill’s main points in the article is that everything in this world makes some form of sound. Whether it be a dropped book, a fridge humming, or even a page being turned in a book everything makes a noise. He states that we simply hear these things but if we focused closer we could actually listen to them in depth. We could focus on hear a dropped book in a noisy class or we could listen to the drastic thud and the echo it achieves even in an unrestrained group of people’s chatter.<BR/>3)I feel the best thing that I could get out of this article is to rather listen to my environments more then just hear things that are happening in it. For example instead of hearing traffic wiz by I could focus more on the low hum of the tires as they zoom by or perhaps the increasing roar of the engine as the driver speeds up to get though the yellow light.Shane Connollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03999597256930058555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-61060093319686597672008-02-18T13:41:00.000-06:002008-02-18T13:41:00.000-06:00Jonathan Lindenberg's Reflective Response #21.) I ...Jonathan Lindenberg's Reflective Response #2<BR/><BR/>1.) I chose to respond to the article "The Art of Noise", by Luigi Russolo due to its discussion of the difference between sound, music, and noise and how they influence each other and can be used apart in conjunction to create an intersting auditory experience beyond what is traditionally accepted as pleasing to the ear. <BR/><BR/>2.) Russolo begins his article by looking at what was traditionally considered pleasing to the ear in the ninteenth century in terms of music and then how the encroachment of noise would forever alter how we use and percieve sound. He distinguishes noise as audibly recognizable qualities from natural events (i.e. the wind blowing or the eruptions of a volcanoe) and then goes on to discuss the effect that man-made machinery has had on sound. With machines came an enormous array of different sounds and eventually ways to detect, record, and manipulate these sounds and use them to create a sort of music or soundtrack that will not rely on the traditional theories and instrumentation of music. He encourages the reader to explore and experiment with different types of noises and to even use that as a jumping off point for a project.<BR/><BR/>3.) This article will benefit me as a media artist because it encouraged me to think outside of the box of what is typically accepted as pleasing or enjoyable sounds and to then use these as a starting point to develop a project. The importance that Russolo puts upon the noises of the world that are often taken for granted inspires me to try to experiment with ideas and methods that would not typically be considered appropriate, and it opens my eyes to the amount of possibilites there are out there to try new things and to see what interesting results can come just from experimentation.JonathanLindenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09752818516714316016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-48582086550297454292008-02-18T13:11:00.000-06:002008-02-18T13:11:00.000-06:001. Identify the article you have selected and why ...1. Identify the article you have selected and why you chose it.<BR/>I chose David Toops article entitled The Art of Noise for the reason that I found it engaging, interesting, and appropriate discussion matter for this day and age. It endeavors to explore sounds range and our interpretation of sound.<BR/>2. What are the main points of the essay?<BR/>The article itself employs all of sounds aspects; including but not limited to environment, atmosphere, and sensory perception. The article describes sounds relationship with time and explains the ways in which sound can be measured or chaotic. Music and sound engulf a massive spectrum, that can be pleasing, or hideous.<BR/>3. How are the ideas or arguments in this article relevant to your own practice as a media artist?<BR/>The arguments made by this article are imperative in my study as an artist. Taking in all aspects of sound helps to expand my creative horizon. The different artists and composers add to my overall knowledge on the subject. The argument in this article is not only convincing and decisive, but it is a topic that needs to be explored further and in more depth, making it a new frontier. Sound and music are long overdue as subject matters in popular discourse and dialogue.brian sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15512543469530226676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920521805292134723.post-16906650379691787432008-02-18T12:39:00.000-06:002008-02-18T12:39:00.000-06:001. Identify the article you have selected and why ...1. Identify the article you have selected and why you chose it.<BR/>**I choose "The Art of Noise" by David Toop because I believe that noise is an art and should be treated as one. It's not the question of can you hear it but can you sense it, can you understand it? Noise is one the hardest things to understand and sometimes even experience since our brains constantly tune out noises we aren't looking for. What we hear can also be so manipulated by what we see or by what we want to hear. Noise is vast, strange, and makes so much of our lives it hard to believe it's so bypassed.**<BR/><BR/>2. What are the main points of the essay?<BR/>**The article mainly talked about how noise has been perceived and is now coming into a new understanding. It is so multi functional and noise goes beyond what music does becoming its own art. Toop named a number of different artists who have made waves among the noise art scene such as Janet Cardiff, John Cage, and Bruce Nauman. Each using sound in a different way and creating their own art with noise. Toop makes it clear noise and music are not the same because while music has definitions and limitations, noise can follow whatever path you choose for it.**<BR/> <BR/>3. How are the ideas or arguments in this article relevant to your own practice as a media artist?<BR/>**The idea of noise being an art makes it much more useful. There could be a black screen with nothing on it but if the sound related to the black screen will capture the audience it is art. Noises can be used to manipulate people into perceiving things how you want them to understand it. It creates moments, feelings, memories intangible creations. Because noise is so powerful an artist must be mindful how they use it and how they wield such power.**Eliza-Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633977384748158653noreply@blogger.com