Sunday, September 14, 2014

Process 1.1 Comfortably Unaware

As I examined my recordings I realized that there was a interest in the sound of the buildings then the actual sounds of the people I was trying to "spy" on. Then here are some of the following questions I began to ask myself.

- What is important about the buildings I'm in
- What is important about the device that I am recording this audio on.
- Is it important that the space is still existing. ( The idea of absent physical refferences)
- How can I create a interesting idea about space and privacy with area and atmosphere?

I began to realize that atmosphere and reflections on spaces that are not present or not longer present was a interesting idea.

In Today's world technology increases and changes the way that we go about our life. It has changed the way we listen to music and walk through our world.  We become sheltered within these spaces that we create for our selfs with our personalized wardrobe of a world from all the designs we make about what we should own and the kind of person we should be. As technology increases it depletes many variables as they become basically exist or no longer useful.  We walk every day throw old buildings, new buildings old buildings that are made to look new and new ones that are made to look old. This rekindling of the past in the present is very interesting to me. Is it because we realized that some decisions as far as aesthetic and space were betters then others or is it just a way to comfort our minds into know what works better. I felt like it would interesting to record a space for the actually integrity of the build. All the cracks and ticks that a home make as it is slowly begging it's joinery into settling in.  I feel to best execute further ideas about the space would be to record newer buildings built within the past two years with older technology that are now considered absolute, and older phone with the most modern state of the art recording devices I can manage to get my hands of. (My department as access to microphones and plenty of devices I can pick from).

Over the weekend and the next week I will collecting my audio and continue to think about our unconscious decisions to create our own spaces, what makes these space comfortable and how do these spaces and sounds reflect our society.

I will:
- Collect audio
- Document spaces ( phots, possible take a visual reference to the space like business cards, a pieces of the chair, a portion of the carpet etc.. )
- Write reflections on how the space personally makes me feel as well as how other people react within them ( all these space are going to be public)
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What is interesting about how we react within the spaces that we put our selves in.
What is important about preserving the old with the new  - why do we hold onto some ideas and let others go - is it recycled or build off of or just completely destroyed,


Below is an old audio log that I have been gathering the data of my recording. I think I want to record  at a point of the day were we are most unaware and most un- absorbed by our surrounds.  For me I feel like this would be very early in the morning or around 6 or 7 pm.

-Thinking about these objects project the noise from which they were collected.






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