Submitted by jdouillette on November 6, 2009 - 7:11pm.
Mimi,
I'm okay with either of these approaches. The idea of suggesting a mood or an emotion is cool. This could be more experimental and abstract, but still contain some realistic layers of sound. Give some more thought to this and write some more.
Submitted by lsymczak on November 12, 2009 - 2:41pm.
Hey Mimi!
I'm really excited to see what you come up with for this project because I feel like you tend to appreciate the more alternative methods and expressing different ways to portray maybe a very familiar situation. I'd like to talk to you more about what you are brainstorming because it's still pretty vague so maybe we can work on narrowing it down a little more and then it will be easier to start listing sound effects and things!
Talk to you soon!
Lenora
Submitted by awilson on November 18, 2009 - 5:17pm.
okay, so i have a few ideas but they're all a little half-formed...
1. well a couple days ago i was on dictionary.com, which is my home page because i am so incredibly cool, and somehow after a few links found myself in the thesaurus under nerve and discovered that there are so many excellent synonyms for the word! there's gumption, gall, moxie, pluck, chutzpah, spunk, grit, mettle, tenacity, temerity, audacity, GUTS... it's crazy. no other word has so many great synonyms. i love it. so i'm thinking possibly an audio where i incorporate this somehow? maybe? not just listing the words of course, but some sort of interpretation of this basic concept... like someone very indignant over the behavior or attitudes of someone going on about the nerve and the insolence... but some of the synonyms veer off a bit in definition from this, as in some aren't rude in a bad way so much as endearingly spirited, like pluck or spunk. so i don't know really where i'm going with this....
2. there's this thing i wrote a little while ago, not for school or anything, just fer kicks, and it could be kinda cool spoken aloud. (i was going through a very brief allen ginsberg phase at the time...)
Existentialist musings of the mind flood the nasal cavities and drift towards partial understanding in the retina and, consequently, the liver. Then again, it is the metaphysics of our very nature that govern such an affair. Predestined by latent powers churning with belonging and dissonance, we unwittingly strive towards this comprehension. The chords that vibrate in the heavy, heavy air, the murmurs of apocryphal stories and televised tales, the constant lull of disinterest, the cavernous substandard hum of discontent, the repulsion evoked through sounding bells… these are but some of what the cavity is composed of. Furnished with lacquered intellectuals, blue margarine, cleopatra eyes, and heavenly scholars of divine intent is the latter made the former and the former the latter. With dual action they intertwine and weave themselves to form a romantic alliance of bickering brains amidst a backdrop of obscene hand gestures and truly deplorable statements; the blank, corrugated faces of a generation. Hierarchy and despondency victims of injustice, the spinning, ear-splitting globe the abode of translucent toads and creamed spinach. It is inevitable that such an event will occur. It is folly to proclaim it and folly to dismiss it and utter blasphemy to gaze at ones fingernails, dreaming of colors nonexistent. Therein lies the problem. And to prevent prevalent prefaces and words that rhyme with words that are never spat? Stunned silly and corrupted continually and massacred mercilessly are sung sweetly and lifted loftily and cheerfully chatted to. A pristine white beam of perfect chaos shooting through a prism and hitting the floor in a solid, irrepressible square, a claret smear of clarity smudged and streaked upon the surface of every object in a room. The tendril of smoke rising from an orange crate is but a message. The lovely letter in tidy green ink is truly a cry. Creonotype chrysanthemums were strewn across the pavement once, sacrificing themselves to the art of human resistance.
... it's a little silly.
3. i kind of would really like to do a story, something more tangible and concrete than the above nonsense, but i can't think of anything. i'm thinking maybe i should save that for the video later on? or i might be able to finish up a few things that i've written that would establish more of a setting/characters, but i don't know. they're more of sketches, but i think that would be best for this project since it's audio and it's short. i dunno, we'll see.
Submitted by lsymczak on December 3, 2009 - 4:04pm.
Mimi!
You are so far out and I love the first two ideas so much. It is super refreshing and difficult but they could both be so cool! You have a real way with words and that is something that I think you should take advantage of for this project. I think that writing a narrative would be something great for you to start thinking about now in preparation for the video project but the first two ideas are too good to pass up. I'm still kind of torn between the two because while it is really interesting to hear all the synonyms for nerve, I like the idea of the spoken word piece a lot too. It is extra special because you wrote it and it's so stream of consciousness that it opens up a lot of possibilities for what you could do with the audio. It's really exciting too because you are one of the few people that has the opportunity to design audio purely to evoke feeling instead of to help emphasize a narrative. I imagined the second option to be read and maybe you could make your own music/ ambient sound to be in the background. It could change throughout the poem. It could be a collection of sounds that you have gathered and melt together. You could completely invent it yourself! I'm really psyched to talk to you more about this!
Reading your allen ginsberg piece reminded me of my roommate Casey a lot because she is a great poet and does a lot of spoken word performances with the accompaniment of sound through casette tape players that she spreads around the room. Maybe it would be helpful to listen to some of her stuff to get ideas?
You can check her out at http://www.myspace.com/caseyrocheteau and specifically listen to "Beings of Sound". I think that is what I was imagining your piece to be like. Not have direct correlation between the words and the sound but the sound acts more as a mood setting.
Let me know what you think!
Lenora
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Mimi, I'm okay with either of
Mimi,
I'm okay with either of these approaches. The idea of suggesting a mood or an emotion is cool. This could be more experimental and abstract, but still contain some realistic layers of sound. Give some more thought to this and write some more.
-JoE
Hey Mimi! I'm really excited
Hey Mimi!
I'm really excited to see what you come up with for this project because I feel like you tend to appreciate the more alternative methods and expressing different ways to portray maybe a very familiar situation. I'd like to talk to you more about what you are brainstorming because it's still pretty vague so maybe we can work on narrowing it down a little more and then it will be easier to start listing sound effects and things!
Talk to you soon!
Lenora
okay, so i have a few ideas
okay, so i have a few ideas but they're all a little half-formed...
1. well a couple days ago i was on dictionary.com, which is my home page because i am so incredibly cool, and somehow after a few links found myself in the thesaurus under nerve and discovered that there are so many excellent synonyms for the word! there's gumption, gall, moxie, pluck, chutzpah, spunk, grit, mettle, tenacity, temerity, audacity, GUTS... it's crazy. no other word has so many great synonyms. i love it. so i'm thinking possibly an audio where i incorporate this somehow? maybe? not just listing the words of course, but some sort of interpretation of this basic concept... like someone very indignant over the behavior or attitudes of someone going on about the nerve and the insolence... but some of the synonyms veer off a bit in definition from this, as in some aren't rude in a bad way so much as endearingly spirited, like pluck or spunk. so i don't know really where i'm going with this....
2. there's this thing i wrote a little while ago, not for school or anything, just fer kicks, and it could be kinda cool spoken aloud. (i was going through a very brief allen ginsberg phase at the time...)
Existentialist musings of the mind flood the nasal cavities and drift towards partial understanding in the retina and, consequently, the liver. Then again, it is the metaphysics of our very nature that govern such an affair. Predestined by latent powers churning with belonging and dissonance, we unwittingly strive towards this comprehension. The chords that vibrate in the heavy, heavy air, the murmurs of apocryphal stories and televised tales, the constant lull of disinterest, the cavernous substandard hum of discontent, the repulsion evoked through sounding bells… these are but some of what the cavity is composed of. Furnished with lacquered intellectuals, blue margarine, cleopatra eyes, and heavenly scholars of divine intent is the latter made the former and the former the latter. With dual action they intertwine and weave themselves to form a romantic alliance of bickering brains amidst a backdrop of obscene hand gestures and truly deplorable statements; the blank, corrugated faces of a generation. Hierarchy and despondency victims of injustice, the spinning, ear-splitting globe the abode of translucent toads and creamed spinach. It is inevitable that such an event will occur. It is folly to proclaim it and folly to dismiss it and utter blasphemy to gaze at ones fingernails, dreaming of colors nonexistent. Therein lies the problem. And to prevent prevalent prefaces and words that rhyme with words that are never spat? Stunned silly and corrupted continually and massacred mercilessly are sung sweetly and lifted loftily and cheerfully chatted to. A pristine white beam of perfect chaos shooting through a prism and hitting the floor in a solid, irrepressible square, a claret smear of clarity smudged and streaked upon the surface of every object in a room. The tendril of smoke rising from an orange crate is but a message. The lovely letter in tidy green ink is truly a cry. Creonotype chrysanthemums were strewn across the pavement once, sacrificing themselves to the art of human resistance.
... it's a little silly.
3. i kind of would really like to do a story, something more tangible and concrete than the above nonsense, but i can't think of anything. i'm thinking maybe i should save that for the video later on? or i might be able to finish up a few things that i've written that would establish more of a setting/characters, but i don't know. they're more of sketches, but i think that would be best for this project since it's audio and it's short. i dunno, we'll see.
thoughts?
Mimi! You are so far out and
Mimi!
You are so far out and I love the first two ideas so much. It is super refreshing and difficult but they could both be so cool! You have a real way with words and that is something that I think you should take advantage of for this project. I think that writing a narrative would be something great for you to start thinking about now in preparation for the video project but the first two ideas are too good to pass up. I'm still kind of torn between the two because while it is really interesting to hear all the synonyms for nerve, I like the idea of the spoken word piece a lot too. It is extra special because you wrote it and it's so stream of consciousness that it opens up a lot of possibilities for what you could do with the audio. It's really exciting too because you are one of the few people that has the opportunity to design audio purely to evoke feeling instead of to help emphasize a narrative. I imagined the second option to be read and maybe you could make your own music/ ambient sound to be in the background. It could change throughout the poem. It could be a collection of sounds that you have gathered and melt together. You could completely invent it yourself! I'm really psyched to talk to you more about this!
Reading your allen ginsberg piece reminded me of my roommate Casey a lot because she is a great poet and does a lot of spoken word performances with the accompaniment of sound through casette tape players that she spreads around the room. Maybe it would be helpful to listen to some of her stuff to get ideas?
You can check her out at http://www.myspace.com/caseyrocheteau and specifically listen to "Beings of Sound". I think that is what I was imagining your piece to be like. Not have direct correlation between the words and the sound but the sound acts more as a mood setting.
Let me know what you think!
Lenora
thanks lenora! yeah i think
thanks lenora!
yeah i think i'll do the second one.
here's a link to the lee ranaldo piece i was talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqZn6DKVdaA
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