Maps and Journey Idea Development 1

Charlie approached Kat and I after our lecture with Kathleen asking to combine all three of our ideas.
Katherine's idea being the butterfly effect (Katherine's blog post) and Charlie's being the 5 senses.

Thinking of ways too combine our idea's we came up with my idea, journey through a landscape, as the base of the idea. Then have Kat's and Charlie's incorporated into it along the way:
Examples being the smell of the environment the audience is viewing and then being able to choose the next path/journey/environment to explore.

Narration

After recording my narration for my project and listening to the sounds I have collected, Harry (the tutor) decided that I should find some narration that fits my sounds. 

With some help from Charlie, she suggested Wizard of Oz.

So this is now my new narration. 

[From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm. There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.

Suddenly Uncle Henry stood up.

"There's a cyclone coming, Em," he called to his wife. "I'll go look after the stock." Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.

Aunt Em dropped her work and came to the door. One glance told her of the danger close at hand.

"Quick, Dorothy!" she screamed. "Run for the cellar!"

Toto jumped out of Dorothy's arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at last and started to follow her aunt. When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.

Then a strange thing happened.

The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air.] 

Protools Notes

When creating a new session in the ProTools select these settings:

Audio file type: BWF (.WAV)

Sample Rate: 48kHz

Bit Depth: 16 bit

I/O setting: Stereo mix

tick Interleaved 

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Wednesday recording Session

On Wednesday 1st October I used the recording booth with my friends to record our narration put of the project.

Artist Studies

This post contains some of the artists that help inspire my project development and ideas. Looking into artists who relate to the project topic and then use their work to for development.

Chris Welsby

Using nature as a main feature of his work really drew me into his art. Nature being one of my interests I looked to his art as an inspiration for my idea.

Richard Long

A lot like Chris, Richard uses nature as a theme. Forming angled rocks and other forms of land, in certain patterns and shapes, making strangely satisfying shapes out of jagged rocks. 

Mariele Neudecker

Enclosing landscapes in glass boxes full of liquid, jagged mountains with fog covered bases, lit brightly with cold blue lights. Loving the colours and lighting theme of her art work as well as the interest of how she made them made me come to love her work. Leah also showed us a few pieces of her work, one being a Winterreise (2003) where she feels a boat journey round a specific latitude in the north sea, played along side an opera telling a story. I loved this piece as it's relaxing to look at and hear, the gentle music and steady motion of the boat made it feel like meditating. I wanted to take some of those aspects, being relaxing and soothing to enjoy, as sort of calming zone. 

Tacita Dean

The distortion of this image is simple but intriguing, unable to see the background and location it's in and then the look of the tree itself, black and white, withered, dying. Yet I think it looks beautiful and mysterious, making me want to know where this is. 

Jane and Louise Wilson 

These artist take some stunning photos of abandoned places such as the waste land that used to be Chernobyl and many other places that our run down and falling apart. Capturing the difference in how things look even after not being interacted with for so long. 

Susan Hiller

The lights she uses in her works are surprisingly hypnotic and warm too me. Also another one of her pieces, Witness, features a room filled with hundreds of hanging speakers in a low lit room. The speakers retelling stories of peoples extraterrestrial encounters.

Boyle Family

Recreating a small plot of land using a cast and then using a type of the material to remodel that piece of land so they can hang it on the wall.

Pippiloti Rist

After seeing her work (shown in image above) I got the inspiration of how to present my maps and journeys work as an installation piece. But instead of using only 2 walls I'd try to use all walls if possible.

Ben Young

Using slivers of glass glued next together in an intricate design that forms a landscape or object. I personally love this art as the craftsmanship and attention to detail is amazing, and then to create such beautiful pieces of work in that soft turquoise. 

Dr Yuwei Lin - Cultural Geography and Mapping

What are maps:
    -Technical Instruments
    -Political statements
    -Religious statements
    -Boundaries
    -Art works
    -Storytelling
    -Cultural products
    -Memory and emotions
    -Games
Paintings = memory maps

Songs for Sound project

Reading through my pieces of text, it refers to multiple songs that are playing in the background of the party.

Book Clippings

The Book I'm using is Bioshock: Rapture page 389, which describes a New Year's eve in 1958 in an underwater city when an ambush makes their way in to destroy the party. 

Sound Notes 1

Sound workshop

Radio plays:

-War of the Worlds (1938)
-BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1978)
     - Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy
-The Truth Podcast - interns
     -There made of meat (2014)

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Sound Assignment

-Pick a short 30s - 1min piece of text
-Create a soundscape to the chosen text and use
     -reverb, cutting, pitch shift, reverse, distortion only
- We will play the back in the class to Discuss
     -mood, pace, location...