070515 Wakow Listening Notes
New processing of some old Tulsita sounds, from Tulsa movie. Nathan feels strong about using this. (Flatlander high)
One track he played while we were writing, Nathan produced from an acoustic guitar (canal’s rending)
Nathan suggested that each chapter have a real broad conception of how we are using sound, not just as soundtrack or layers or background music.
Original key of Tulsita chords in original key (contrails)
Acoustic guitar, sounds at first like violin picsicado (Rabelais guitar); vaguely religious sounding,
Nathan suggested giving us each homework, a 3-5 min sound that we have to put image and text to.
Fluid sounds, low register morphs into high metallic sounds (overload guitars)
Sound of water (trickle)
Oil pump (oil pump)
Nathan reading and grant over embers sound (after fires)
sermon in downtown Tulsa, culled references to books ie OK divers manual (more light or not)
Tulsa clips interspersed in Presby sermon (canal rendered)
long track, beginning with metallic buzz then fading into filtered oil pump sounds (slow pump fizzy)
salt water sound with some other old Tulsita sounds and Presby sermon
“sermonicity” –Nathan
The part with David reading on several tracks is already what I imagine the sound track to this movie to be.
The tryptich is very enticing to me because of the long religious history to the form.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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
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
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
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
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Our City of Manifest Destiny
Who Knew Tulsa?
We reach for it, famished
an approximation
this kind desert
with insides blunted for the fast of will
it exists
ignited in the rising
buildings of clay
a city manifest
We did not know a thing in Tulsa.
But worthy elegance has treated our drainage.
Here, under the earth, which are memories?
Which art-treated?
Hipness and pit, which good taste?
We have found our city of opportunity.
It is said they damage their house in order to remain.
Opinion E: Undeniable aesthetics.
We have the goal of more elasticity
In order to give the impression of progress
The gift of the article is revolution
We cut ethical
It is the accumulation of demand we attempt to deny
We began to come with hunger
but close ourselves as soon as we think we will make it.
Tulsa. Who knew?
We were getting hungry and approaching Tulsa, Oklahoma so we thought we'd stop off for a quick bite at Subway or the like. We didn't know a thing about Tulsa, except that it existed. What we found was a town clearly on the rise; industrial-chic brick buildings encased galleries, shops and restaurants worthy of any major arts-concerned metropolis. But the vibe here, hipness and good taste notwithstanding, is unmistakably small-town. Tulsans could easily qualify as our nation's friendliest people.
By chance, we parked next to a store, Dwelling Spaces, that was having its grand opening party. The loftlike shop was smartly stocked with eclectic-modern doodads, whimsical Alessi kitchenware and T-shirts silk-screened "I'm down with T-town." The owner, Mary Beth Babcock, was living out a dream ("It was just time for this," she said) and provided tasty hors d'oeuvres from adjacent restaurants Tsunami Sushi and Blue Dome Diner. Jen and I bought some trinkets since we didn't think we'd easily be able to find stuff like this elsewhere.
We walked out to find a restaurant and passed the May Rooms Gallery, which seduced us in. The feel was the same as the rest of the neighborhood: industrial, lofty and undeniably aesthetic. The current exhibit, called Cuba 06, featured revolutionary propaganda posters, ethnic sculpture and moody black-and-whites of Castro. It's the collection of Milly Moorhead West, who was there regaling us with tales of her 20 trips to Cuba. She asked us where we were from; we told her.She asked us what we were doing here; we told her. She asked us where we were sleeping; we said good question. She said we should stay the night at her house. We were humbled by the offer -- here was that Southern hospitality we've all heard about -- but after thanking her, we told her that we were aiming to make more headway toward Texas.
Dinner, rather than Subway, was at James E. McNellie's, a happening neighborhood joint with all-American food, a pamphlet-length list of worldwide beers (Jen was excited to order her rarely found favorite, a Belgian brew called Leffe Blonde) and a talented band playing upstairs. We left full, happy and marveling at our good fortune for having stumbled upon Tulsa. Who knew?
We reach for it, famished
an approximation
this kind desert
with insides blunted for the fast of will
it exists
ignited in the rising
buildings of clay
a city manifest
We did not know a thing in Tulsa.
But worthy elegance has treated our drainage.
Here, under the earth, which are memories?
Which art-treated?
Hipness and pit, which good taste?
We have found our city of opportunity.
It is said they damage their house in order to remain.
Opinion E: Undeniable aesthetics.
We have the goal of more elasticity
In order to give the impression of progress
The gift of the article is revolution
We cut ethical
It is the accumulation of demand we attempt to deny
We began to come with hunger
but close ourselves as soon as we think we will make it.
Tulsa. Who knew?
We were getting hungry and approaching Tulsa, Oklahoma so we thought we'd stop off for a quick bite at Subway or the like. We didn't know a thing about Tulsa, except that it existed. What we found was a town clearly on the rise; industrial-chic brick buildings encased galleries, shops and restaurants worthy of any major arts-concerned metropolis. But the vibe here, hipness and good taste notwithstanding, is unmistakably small-town. Tulsans could easily qualify as our nation's friendliest people.
By chance, we parked next to a store, Dwelling Spaces, that was having its grand opening party. The loftlike shop was smartly stocked with eclectic-modern doodads, whimsical Alessi kitchenware and T-shirts silk-screened "I'm down with T-town." The owner, Mary Beth Babcock, was living out a dream ("It was just time for this," she said) and provided tasty hors d'oeuvres from adjacent restaurants Tsunami Sushi and Blue Dome Diner. Jen and I bought some trinkets since we didn't think we'd easily be able to find stuff like this elsewhere.
We walked out to find a restaurant and passed the May Rooms Gallery, which seduced us in. The feel was the same as the rest of the neighborhood: industrial, lofty and undeniably aesthetic. The current exhibit, called Cuba 06, featured revolutionary propaganda posters, ethnic sculpture and moody black-and-whites of Castro. It's the collection of Milly Moorhead West, who was there regaling us with tales of her 20 trips to Cuba. She asked us where we were from; we told her.She asked us what we were doing here; we told her. She asked us where we were sleeping; we said good question. She said we should stay the night at her house. We were humbled by the offer -- here was that Southern hospitality we've all heard about -- but after thanking her, we told her that we were aiming to make more headway toward Texas.
Dinner, rather than Subway, was at James E. McNellie's, a happening neighborhood joint with all-American food, a pamphlet-length list of worldwide beers (Jen was excited to order her rarely found favorite, a Belgian brew called Leffe Blonde) and a talented band playing upstairs. We left full, happy and marveling at our good fortune for having stumbled upon Tulsa. Who knew?
Friday, March 16, 2007
Full 2nd draft ready for view
Click on the Tulsita (2nd draft) link above to see the whole thing, with four buttons on each poem, elongated interludes, cleaned-up animation on "Big Box Block", and no pop-up photos.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Tulsita 1&2 ready for review
After staying up til 4am Mon and then working all morning, I think I finally have all the bugs worked out on the photo pop-ups. Click this link to see Big Box Block in your browser. Roll the mouse over the screen to open photos. There should be seven.
OK, now it's Wed, and I finished Modest, OK with pop-up photos. There should be three in this file. Check them both out and let me know what you think.
Things to consider:
OK, now it's Wed, and I finished Modest, OK with pop-up photos. There should be three in this file. Check them both out and let me know what you think.
Things to consider:
- Do we need the preloader graphic that lets viewer know file is downloading?
- Should the photo files be preloaded for too for speed--did you notice a delay before they popped up?
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Cutups
I made some cut ups using the Cutup Engine 2.0 and the websites below. I'm thinking of combining them into the best one to link to the words "big box block" in Tulsita. What do you think?
http://www.nous.org.uk/oulipo.html
http://www.oerb.com/restoration/environ-index.asp
http://www.churchonthemove.com/about/
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/berrigan/
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/berrigan/last.html
http://www.livingarts.org/
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/larry_clark/
http://www.cityoftulsa.org/
http://www.tulsahistory.org/learn/riot.htm
http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A15080
http://imdb.com/title/tt0048445/posters
http://www10.toysrus.com/about/
http://www.circuitcity.com
http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-001086
http://www.nous.org.uk/oulipo.html
http://www.oerb.com/restoration/environ-index.asp
http://www.churchonthemove.com/about/
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/berrigan/
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/berrigan/last.html
http://www.livingarts.org/
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/larry_clark/
http://www.cityoftulsa.org/
http://www.tulsahistory.org/learn/riot.htm
http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A15080
http://imdb.com/title/tt0048445/posters
http://www10.toysrus.com/about/
http://www.circuitcity.com
http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-001086
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Penultimate Tulsita
There are only a few things left to do on Tulsita flash:
After we do these things, we'll have an interactive Tulsa extravaganza.
- Add skip and back buttons to the poems
- Fine-tune Big Box Block animation
- Add sound to intro
After we do these things, we'll have an interactive Tulsa extravaganza.
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