construction of an act
I like how this “act was constructed”. The cacophony of sounds and the distance/time relations, space-time and sound. ie the amplified sound was in a different room to the thing that was being amplified that made this anticipation and waiting for the sounds, where the sound was going to hit you later in the rooms. you could see the microphone so knew that it would probably b somewhere.. or was it because the gallery dude said so, I'm not sure. But I felt a sense of exploration and anticipation in this. Especially also with the three videos/works on a loop of 20 minutes each, so you had to wait 20 minutes at least to see all of the works. It made the place like a working sound clock loop. The sound loop- trapping us inside a sound loop. You got a feeling of temporality. Especially with something like step siren - which mimics the movement of a clock and the cymbal nearing the radio making the same noise on repeat ad infinitum.
The cacophony of noise was interesting. It seems to play with the space entirely,with time and with the placement of the viewer (space?). Using the nostalgia of technology - radio waves and LED light waves to create this idea about temporality and two domestic technologies that never had to coexist at any other time. The new and the old, and the turning of the clock like a cymbal.
The idea of amplification itself is interesting. here the event is microphoned, the sound is amplified and comes from somewhere else. What does this do? Creates a spacial confusion aurally, bringing to attention the act of amplification.
plays with you cognitive function of listening and being in a 3-dimensional space and the ways that you navigate this space. it reminds me of that exhibition at Ian Potter about sound. drawing attention to the way that you cognitively navigate sound in space - especially in cacophonous situations. the changing in the temporality of this makes the sound layers continuously change over the hour or so. Each room is a different joining together of different sounds and the bleed of different sounds making everywhere you stand in the exhibition a different place.
I am really interested in lagging temporality and sound, and sound bleeding to create a new experience. I don't know if any of this will become prevalent in my work but it is an interest that I'm sure I will continue to be fascinated with in the future. I think its something important to think of when making video work, I would like to make an exhibition in which the sounds from the video complement each other or work on harmony/dissonance that brings another layer to the overall work. I think that the Sound Exhibition at Ian Potter exhibition was really successful in this as it brought the attention to the cognitive function of hearing as the voices themselves were talking about the act of listening and hearing. I don't know if I could be that deliberate.
I think that my video works at the beginning of the semester were trying to accomplish this but with an image instead of sound. It is a great idea to be able to stand in a space and your changing position changes your experience so that the viewer is forced to move about to create their own audial experience. I think that was what I was trying to do with my first semester's work visually, but now I realised that I missed the entire sound element, one that would make much more sense.
