sound installations

The Group Install.

The installation we did as a group was just plain fun. Not only did we get to play with noise making devices we had the campus for an audience. My favorite part was when one of my Buddy's from my England trip walked up and thought we were all crazy. Also i don't know if it was just me but i felt that most of the people that walked by saw were extremely confused, they had a wasn't 420 yesterday look on there face.

Otherwise the problems with the install were just the fact that you didn't really know what the other person was doing and i spent most the time worrying about making 500 different sounds. Then as far as a performer i could only concentrate on my own work so i had trouble with comprehending it as sum of parts.


My Install.

For my own Install i was dead set on using the telephone to record and distribute the piece. This made it unique and it also made it a bit of a pain in the ass. I quickly found out that its not that easy to record stuff on answering machines and then to rerecord then and mix them in pro tools. Especially if your in the same room as the answering machine, this just leads to feedback that just turns into wailing or screeching.

But I bravely moved forward anyway. I simplified the process. I just recorded dial tones and ringer sounds through a Mic and then i recorded the voice parts though the microphone. then mixed it and distributed it through the telephone to some of my profs answering machines.

The piece it self was set up to be the ultimate drunk dial. After i started it i realized that it would work best if it had two parts the drunk and the sober buddy. i thought this would work better because i figured the average person would be really confused if they got a message on the answering machine of two people in a dialog. I furthered the confusion when i mixed the hell out of it. I chopped, inverted, reversed, and added many different sound effects to the piece.

In all i think it was a minor success just because anyone that listen to it would be really confused and that was my ultimate goal. But i say minor because i figure most people probably deleted it before listing to the whole piece.



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Students:

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