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Deep Listening

Location 1: Bedroom In my brothers bedroom (where I am staying while I am in Texas) I heard only a few things. The room is very quiet so I heard only the hum of my computer fan, the vent on the ceiling blowing out air, and the sound of the ceiling fan slightly creaking. These are all sounds that I routinely block out when I am sitting in his room doing school work. They are just background noise, but are the only sounds I can hear and focus on now. Location 2: Living Room My family's living room is significantly louder. I can hear one of my brothers muffled talking from his bedroom, the sound of the other brother watching television in his room, and the sound of my parents working and typing on their keyboards in their room. I can also hear the dogs wandering through the house and I hear their claws tapping on the tile floor. Location 3: Backyard In my parents backyard it is surprisingly and unnervingly quiet. None of my parents neighbors or their dogs are outside, ...
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Audio Terminology

• Amplitude - basically this is the loudness of a sound • Frequency - basically this is the pitch of a sound • Waveform - the image that represents sound • Audio track - a single audio file or asset • Audio Equalization - adjusting of sound frequencies (commonly the treble and bass) • Sine wave. What does this sound like? - sine waves sound smooth especially compared to square waves • Decibels - decibels are units of measurement to tell the intensity of a sound. Deci means ten and bel is a unit of the measure of power. Therefore a decibel is a tenth of a bel unit. • VU Meter - volume unit meter, it measures and displays the signal level in audio equipment
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Project 2 Shot List

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Project 2 Ideas

Idea 1: Pineapple Observatory This project would consist of putting random test subjects in a room with only a pineapple (or any other random, inanimate object) and a microphone. They will sit there for several minutes and talk about the pineapple. They can talk about what it looks like. Details they start to notice. How it makes them feel. What they think of then they think of pineapples. I also plan to have pieces of pineapple that they can eat if they so choose. They can eat the pineapple and describe the taste or texture. Whatever they want. The video itself will consist of a voice over of the people talking while showing footage of that person staring at the pineapple.  The aesthetic of this work would be very experimental, scientific, and structured. I believe that art can be found within the monotonous order of things and doesn't have to be scripted. Idea 2: Clown for a Day This video would be a more scripted event. It would focus on a person who is wearing clo...
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John Baldessari, Teaching a Plant the Alphabet (1972)

For this assignment I chose a piece by the late John Baldessari: Teaching a Plant the Alphabet. This video work is an absurd comedic piece that creates a dialogue about education and rote memorization. The video is over eighteen minutes long and consists of Baldessari repeating the letters of the alphabet over and over again. He holds up children's alphabet cards to a potted plant that is seated on a stool. He repeats each letter of the alphabet numerous times as if he expects the plant to learn the letters. I actually like this piece of video art because it's just incredibly absurd and time wasting. It reminds me a lot of the English comedy troop, Monty Python. They specialized in creating absurd comedy that lasted for very long amounts of time for no other reason than for absurdity itself. Monty Python's first feature film that employs a lot of this comedy came out three years after this work by Baldessari and it seems like the work of Baldessari could have been an inspir...
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The Best Still Frame - Project 1

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The best still frame from the Elusive Form project is probably this image. This image to me is incredibly dynamic. I love the contrast between the yellow and red and there is a lot of motion in this one still image. The image almost looks psychedelic to me and really sums up the meaning behind my whole work. This image captures a lot of what I am trying to say about the competition of thoughts for control of the mind.
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