4/25/10

1.) Stop motion animation is a lost art. I never realized how difficult it is to create something by moving things inch centimeter by centimeter. The kind of animation and motion pictures done today are easy in comparison to the effort and concentration it requires to put together a good stop motion animation. 

2.) It is important to maintain exact positioning and exact lighting and slow transitioning in order to make an effective movement.

3.) Story boards are important because they allow ideas to start flowing. It is not necessary to stick to the story board exactly. The changes and ideas that change as you go make the movie more interesting and usually more effective.

11/4/10

1. Critiques are a very important skill in terms of giving other people advice and in making good decisions and changes in your own pieces.

2. The marriage of form and intention are essential to a successful piece

3. There is such a thing as too much repetition and too much distortion. There is nothing wrong with naked sound if used appropriately. 

Professional Theme Sound Analysis

Joseph Beuys "Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne"

1. This sound work has a lot of repetition but also changes in tempo and pitch, creating emphasis on certain parts of the piece. There is a fairly dynamic range with varying amplitude giving off an acoustic space.

2. Form and intention are married in this work. The artist is very deliberate in the way he puts things together and he is attempting to create a very surreal and eerie sound piece. His intention is clear and his form is solid. 

3. This person clearly values the sounds that a human voice box can make and wanted to prove that it has the ability to create any kind of environment it wants to. This person wants to pay attention to the way the voice can be used to create certain emotions. 

George Brecht "Comb Music (Comb Event)"

1. This sound works with pitch and amplitude but otherwise is very simple in form.

2. Form and intention are married in this work. This artist created something very interesting and pleasant to listen to, though it is made merely from a comb. This is the intention, to create something interesting with something very simple. By doing one long stroke of the comb experimenting with tone and pitch, it's a very smooth and interesting sound. 

3. This artist clearly takes value in the idea of creating sound through simple means and taking something from every day life and creating something interesting or beautiful from it. 

Magdalena Abakanowicz "Cough"

1. This person works with tone pitch and amplitude but doesn't do a whole lot of distortion with range and dynamics.

2. This piece doesn't feel as harmonic between form and intention. The intention is clear but the form is not very interesting. It's just of someone coughing without much of a pattern or repetition. There is little manipulation, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but in this case, it doesn't make for a very interesting form. 

3. This person must take value in the quality of sound without manipulation. They like to send a message across without complicated or distorting the sound in any way. 

Joan Jones "The Anchor Stone"

1. Plays with amplitude, tone, pitch and frequency. There is an interesting ambience and acoustic space as the author tells the story. She combines ambient sounds  and narrative to create a specific feeling and to illustrate the story without pictures.

2. This piece is very harmonic between form and intention. It is an eerie story and this sound gives off an eerie feeling. The form is an illustration which was clearly the intention of the artist. 

3. This person must like telling stories in a way that evokes emotion. By the way a person tells a story and the way in which is sounds and looks by the words we say and the way we say it, a story can be seen in many different ways. This artist likes the idea of manipulation through voice and ambience. 

3/4/10

Today I learned

1. That breaking the rule of no music is sometimes worth it if you have a vision you feel the need to complete.

2. Form and Intention are married. They depend upon one another. Form usually makes intention possible. The way we represent ourselves in form (vocabulary, tones, quality of sound etc.) dictate the way people are going to see us and the way they will understand and interpret our piece.

3. Asking questions is never a bad thing and recording more sounds as we find necessary to our project is fine. Pieces develop and change as we start to work on them and that kind of evolution can be a stroke of genius. 

Theme Sound Analysis

1. a.) montage/narrative

b.) This was more of a narrative than anything else because he is telling a story about his ADD, prognosis and living with it.

c.) This is a narrative and a voice instrumental.

2. a.) This artist did not break the no music rule, though he might be touching on the idea of voice as instrument, even though it was all repeated words. There was a rhythm to it. 

b.) This artist did not break the no music rule but did include clanking patterns in the background periodically which goes well with ADD theme because it's as if someone is in the background tapping something.

c.) This person did not break the no music rule.

3. a.) This makes sense because the artist was trying to portray a stressful and hectic day. By combining and layering the same words over and over again varying the volume, it is clear what message he is trying to get across. It is a somewhat complicated and convoluted piece which works well his topic.

b.) This structure makes sense because there is both repetition and growth throughout the piece which is the perfect setting the show growth within a person dealing with the disease ADD or ADHD. 

c.) This structure makes sense because voice as instrument and the distortion of the voices saying "slight pinch" or "ouch that hurts" really brings about the feeling of pain and the haze created by the process of piercing or tattoos. 

4. a.) The variation of amplitude and pitch combined with the repetition and pattern of words

 like stressful bring about an idea of chaos with in his mind and his world.

b.) The repetition of words and the increased amplitude and pitch of certain repeated points increases the listeners inability to focus on what's going on, thereby getting across the message of what it's like to live with ADD/ADHD.

c.) The variation of amplitude and tone and pitch really send across the idea of loss of control and pain throughout their piece.

a.) jsletten

b.) jjohnston

c.) lradke