Response to Agnes Varda and Chris Marke

I was confused on whether Varda believes that cinema and photography do work off of each other and work together in a way. I believe that they do. In history it is obvious that cinema came to be after photography, but aside from that I feel that early films had influence from photography. The first works that come to my mind are Warhol's screen tests. In a way kind of like a camera obscura he used moving film to capture a live still portrait of a person. There is also the use of films made solely from photographic images using visual effects (dissolves and zooms) along with a narration. This is something Marke discusses in his first experimentation with moving images. I think it is interesting how he explains his pure excitement with what he had created and how he "couldn't even imagine having anything in common with the process of filmmaking." This is an interesting thought and I really like the idea of just jumping into it and trying something new.

Test of Stop Motion

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Hopefully my project goes better than this

Sound Installation

            The mixture of sound and imagery will welcome you into the space. This is meant to be a close and intimate experience. The sound will provide somewhat of my story that, in this same space, is intended to mix with the experiences of the participant. The imagery is meant to add to this same story. A story of a connection to a place you belong and the community that is shaped around it. I want to bring you into my world but at the same time allow for your stories to simultaneously shape the atmosphere around you.

Response to "The Future of Music: Credo"

"We are shielded from new sound experiences." This is the statement that I found most interesting in this text. The idea that there is a certain sounds that people want to hear is questioned by Cage, and it really got me to think about this concept. It is true that people who create music are in fact censoring the listener from the actual sounds that exist by producing sounds that are considered "enjoyable" by the public. But to think about this idea and question it, is what I believe Cage is trying to address. This is something that has been brought up before in class and I think could be an interesting direction to take with my sound project. Some ideas I have considered are recording the sound of the same place on different days and replaying them together in that place to in effect explore other times and atmospheres of that location, or even reveling the sound of different locations to experience other places while experiencing the place you are in at that same time.

Response to critique of assignment 1

I thought everyone had interesting comments about my loop video. Marco brought up some Interesting points about how the actual transfer of money isn't really shown and also the interest of the viewer to see what people are buying. These are some really interesting points that are something to think about for further projects. Another comment was that the sound was weird because it dropped off after the sound of the cash register and the door bell, this is something I struggled with too but I am still unsure how to resolve this problem.

Loop Final

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