Wakow notes 3/28/07

Wakow notes 3/28/07

Use Tulsita as a separate computer screen as you come in, that you can play through it, in addition to the main exhibit? Unless the main event is so awesome.

Tulsita still doesn’t manage to produce true integration between sound and the other elements. N8 wants more of an organic development in the way sound emerges in the work.

M: as an aficionado of This American Life, she’s interested in stories—incorporating those, sound-wise?

N8: voice overs, narration, that explains something about the process.

M: or recording our conversations, or using sermons, etc. Then can we learn something about sound processing, use our computers, make it more of a group concept?

Copy the sounds of oil and religion, integrate them into some kind of soundtrack for the project?

Some sort of photo project where the images are created by sound vibration?

Create computer programs like the itunes one that incorporates photos to a soundtrack?

what about visual elements of sound in terms of the files themselves? The way the sound looks vs what we expect them to sound like.

taking the sound of an oil derrick, seeing what it looks like visually, then abstracting it and making it beautiful—cyanotypes, etc. (Somebody did that, says N8, with a spoken alphabet or something)

or use as layering—the spikes in the wave echo the spikes of the prayer tower or of flowers

our great achievement shall be to make art out of Tulsa. Larry Clark showed the dark side of this model Midwestern city; can we reverse it, showing a postmodern beauty in a strip mall wasteland?

figure out ways to work from sound to text. Transcription software? What would that do to a kind of crazy set of sounds?

for next week: get a collection of sounds, build a text based on it?

Put an archive of sounds on our computer, then somehow wire them together and do an improv in which we play the sounds off each other and record the product.