Sunday, April 22, 2007

Notes from meeting 4/20/07

Frames juxtaposing still photos with short movies along a wall. Maybe even giving it a “stations of the cross” type effect. Other frames might have just subtly changing images. when you walk in, it feels like a normal gallery show.

We could still do this in a large scale, with projectors doing the images. Most of the gallery would be dark.

Could have a box-type situation where the projectors were on the outside and the images could be seen from the inside or outside while still retaining clarity of resolution.

maybe we could have five projectors projected into five frames along the two major walls

Next we need to:
Text from sound
Image from sound
and image from text

Saturday, April 14, 2007

links to gas stations and Alexandre Hogue

  • Gas station sounds

  • weird OK Centennial website

  • Oil in the Sandhills

  • essay on Hogue

  • Crucified Land

  • Hogue Bio

  • TU's holdings in Hogue's papers
  • Wakow minutes 4/14/07

    Shazzam, 'kowers:

    Sound ideas:
    local news and media?
    church/religion sounds
    oil: the physical sound, sounds and lines from movies

    oil/water
    lack of water—drought, landlocked (ties up to dust bowl)
    relation entre oil/religion and water? Holy water, transportation
    unspoken third term in a triangle
    sound of the explosion at the OKC memorial: the hearing is about drilling for water, then interrupted by an explosion caused by ingredients for petroleum-based fertilizer

    baptism vs transportation of goods; both industrial

    2007 is the 100th birthday of the gas station

    Do we know what happened between two days before the oil boom in OK and 2 weeks after? Like Saudi Arabia, in which enormous amounts of money cause a drastic rift? Or a surge in population? etc

    all the churches are built in the 20s and 30s—they are literally coming out of the ground at the same time as oil

    what were they using to get oil out of the ground? water?

    is there a causal relationship between the oil boom and dust bowl? For instance, when did wide-scale damming begin in the state? What kind of power did it provide? I’ve heard that damming changed the climate here, making it more humid in summer—is there some correlation between the dust bowl and damming?

    http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/guthrie.html
    In 1926 after returning briefly to Okemah, Woody set out for Pampa, TX to join his father. There he began painting signs, but an uncle bought him a guitar and taught him to play.
    "And there on the Texas plains right in the dead center of the dust bowl, with the oil boom over and the wheat blowed out and the hard-working people just stumbling about, bothered with mortgages, debts, bills, sickness, worries of every blowing kind, I seen there was plenty to make up songs about. . . . I never did make up any songs about the cow trails or the moon skipping through the sky, but at first it was funny songs or songs about what all's wrong, and how it turned out good or bad. Then I got a little braver and made up songs telling what I thought was wrong and how to make it right, songs that said what everybody in the country was thinking. And this has held me ever since."

    reading: have someone w/ strong OK accent read some of our source texts? But we ourselves should read our poems.

    the OK book section M read from was about missionaries

    what about more testimonial, site specific, or process specific readings?

    dry, technical readings that link up, perhaps drawn from TU library

    write some connective sentences? write in church signs? (M says no)

    deal w/ the original Oral Roberts building on Boulder and 18th?

    our own sort of testimonials, specifically detailed observations of sites that we record? Photos do that well, but the voice description may add

    “rooms and brains and ear canals” –description of psycho-acoustics, but a great title for something