Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Notes on Nathan’s sound edit

As Nathan ran what he had edited, I copied down some prominent lines in order to determine what, if anything should be emphasized or deemphasized

I raise the concern aobut volume, asking N to give us an idea of volume.

The sounds of the earth are like music

Coney Island hot wieners

Missionaries did much about helping the natives…ask the minister

Dip one toe into the and dry it off

The bedroom community of Modest, OK

Close my email program there—I’m always leaveing them lying around

As goes my colon so goes everything

Swallow whole the messiness

Clean the wax from my ears

My colon is the task facing the community

forest

If I’ve seen one pair of spindlie whites, I’ve seen them all

Started the conversation and gone on talking

Tulsa, and neighboring Modest, where shall I find you?

I watered my lawn on New Years Day and hoped my hopin jOhn made a difference

a child before I realized

the sun beat down like the metal of death before I realized

glossy brochure buthe pictures and text are creepy and weird

plumes of doll heads lying in pies of colon contrivances

as penance

the chase, the bedroom

cleaning the wax from my ears

turns me into someone I’m not

after a while you learn to hear it coming

Questions/Comments:

  • Start at 1:30:00
  • What is that hum under the tracks from the movies?
  • This is very textual—now I see what you were talking about with Mindy
  • The piece begins very cinema heavy
  • I like when our voices come in
  • But the sonic parts after the voice at 1:38:00 were really interesting—I like this ambient stuff best
  • like the gusher sounds too, btw—they are really going to feak the images—by 1:44:00 I was wondering of they might be too much—what was your thinking in terms of the level for that track?
  • Should the gusher stuff be more underneath the opening part too, just softer?
  • At 1:46:00 I think the voices should be brought up
  • Nice transition between gusher and train—really plays on the historical connection between the two
  • 1:47:50—gusher ends, electronic and ambient bird sounds begin

Selection of Text:

How to balance visual with meaningful

David wants them to interface with text as text with signification

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