Final Paper

Vitto Acconci's "The Gangster Sister From Chicago visits New York. (A Family Piece)"

Vocal Pt. 2

An experimental edit involving the reversal of sound clips. Click here to listen.

Vocal Pt. 1

This is a rant. Kind of?

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Location- Took the 21 Bus to N Martin Luther King Drive Got off at Value Village thrift store.
We (Me & Kara Pieper)walked a few blocks west from there, and got on the 21 again.
We took the 21 to around 35th street.
We and then we walked north to Locust Street.
We meandered around and ended at E Burleigh Street at a cemetery.

This particular sound was recorded on the corner of north avenue and 5th street.

Oh, what fun.

AUDIO DRRRRRRIFFFFFT!

Drift # 1

Description: March 8th, 2010. 9:47 AM. Underneath Pedestrian Bridge south of North Avenue.

25 Seconds.

Let me fill out the scene for you.

Drift #2

Description: March 8th, 2010. 9:50 AM. Underneath Pedestrian Bridge south of North Avenue.

46 Seconds.

Let me fill out the scene for you, again.

Drift #3

Description: March 8th, 2010. 10:14 AM. Trash Can off of Brady Street.

45 Seconds.

Let me fill out the scene for you, just once more.

My drift strategy:

My drift strategy was half based on my personal opinion, and half based on a coin flip. The decisions i had to make was to decide what the coin flip would decide. For example, when I left my dorm, I thought of two choices, one was to head north, and the other was to head south. I assigned each direction to a side of the coin. North was heads, south was tails; I flipped the coin and it was tails, so I went south. I continued this process whenever I felt like I had two paths to choose from. The paths varied between streets, trails, and cardinal directions.

Found Audio by Kelly Danen

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For my found audio project, I attempted to re envision my past. Throughout the track, waves splashing on the beach is played. At first, I wanted to capture the feeling of relaxation, and I believe that the sounds of the beach did this perfectly, but overtime, the waves speed up. By the end of the audio clip, they are very frantic. I wanted this to resemble my carefree childhood, and how over time, there is less relaxation, and more stress. You may have also noticed the clicks throughout my audio's timeline. This resembles time. Now, most people would argue that time is constant, and I would agree with them, but these clicks in particular represent the importance of time as you grow older. When you're young, the time of the day doesn't matter nearly as much as when you are old. As you grow older, you almost always have appointments, dates, places to be, things to do, and all of these rely on what o'clock it is.

Other pieces of my project are not played throughout the edit. The echoing “Hello” at the beginning is my entry into the world, or my birth. “Smoking is prohibited” and “Prohibited” represent most of the authorities in my life. They are very commanding, and the repetition reminded me of how often I feared punishment during my childhood, because I was far from rebellious. Then I repeated “Smoking” over and over again. This represents my peers and the pressure they have put on myself. This is supposed to be both a good and a bad thing, because although sometimes the friends I have tell me to make bad decisions, they often push me to try new things as well. Then there is the distinct door closing at the end. I felt that this was a good way to represent the idea that I can not change the decisions I've made, and there is no turning back now.