Sunday, January 29, 2006

Ideas for sound--mistakes and glitches

After D and I edited one of the poems, we went to Nathan’s to work on sound.

While listening to some of the stuff we came up with, I had an idea: take all of the mistakes/fuck-ups from the poetry readings and use them as sounds to layer in the “musical” parts.

Peanut reading is between 18 and 22:00.

We copied some of the more interesting verbal sounds and set them aside.

Nathan then began processing some of the sounds to see what would happen.

The debate came up, again, as to what we are doing with these sounds and where they are going to go in our “final” product.

I suggested a four step process: 1) combining, 2) selecting (based on some arbitrary criteria), 3) arranging, 4) processing with sound effects. Result would be sounds that could serve purposes/functions in final product.

David wants us to keep the purpose and final form in mind as we are doing this.

If all sounds can become other sounds, and all cities like Tulsa can become other cities, then what is the concern?