Week 11: End of Term Crits

Feedback sandwich-Please prepare to present your Audio Paper to the group for feedback and finessing.

 Haifa’s work is about fiction and I found her voice was really nice, she did not have either “b”or”p” so it was really nice. she is a good voice actress. She has good narration tracks.

Tie’s heartbeat field recording is really nice. The vague sonic landscape is quite interesting. The sound diversity (also juxtaposition) of recording people and recording yourself mentally is really fabulous. Geophone

I got some good feedback on “what is my work going to emphasis(turning on)?”, “Disoriented”,”Polyphonic” and turn on a bit of narration as well. I don’t want my work to be shorten because what the community want to bring out is really significant: the food waste, the pandemic listening and the eating disorder. I know it is a bit too long and chaotic, but my characteristics are like this… Like I said in the previous blog, I was thinking to turn it on a car loud speaker…I feel like it would be intriguing to listen to it when you are on a uber taxi or just like left from work, just like listening to some news, absorb the message you would like to focus about and ignore the other parts, be like a filter? I was also thinking the space as well, if you turned on the loud stereo speaker and you had got passengers sit beside you or sit behind, then the stuff you guys focused on could be whatever you would like.

Tom’s piece was slow-paced, cozy, and meditating. It feels like “stop~a~ I could take a rest now”. The mixing and the EQ are going very well. It generates the thinking of sonic meditation. It is a nice conversation, and him, has a nice personality. I felt like it would be more interesting if the loop of music could make some change…

Theo’s work is reflecting on “noise pollution”. I did not realise the noise pollution was that serious and huge until I hear it. It gave me an impression of how noise is influencing our emotions. And I thought it would be a good idea, a scientific truth to bring out to society. I really could not stand the noises when I was getting on a tube. The final sentences of warning was really significant.

Ben is well known for his MAX self-made granular synth so I found the music base nice to listen to. The idea of how the confusing land is and how it goes to proper copyright is like a polyphonic sound trip. I don’t know why the narration is needed at this point if there is a proper script to read.

Jame’s idea deal with sound archives is interesting. But at the same time, I find some of the sound archives are meaningless, not cited withe the topic should be, sometimes it just feels better when you do field recordings yourself. Maybe thinking of it like a nostalgia thing?