Sowndz

In the acoustic ecology article, I was definitely reminded of little attention I pay to the sounds of nature and the sounds of humans that block out the natural ones.  I remember being in Markowski's recording class and we had "Soundscape" assignments...Markowski would tell us to listen real hard in the natural environment ones, because of their were cars or people audible in the background, you weren't deep enough into a natural sound environment.  Actually being able to find a place like that is surprisingly difficult.

I had to chuckle a bit when I read the comment from the sound-obsessed guy who said not enough is being done to conserve environmental sound, because my instant response was 'wellll, our human expansion (cities machines cars and all that) isn't just louder than the environment.  It kills a lot of stuff in the environment.  Maybe it's getting harder to hear deer footsteps because we're running over all the deer with our SUV's.'

I see where the guy's coming from, it just sounds funny when you view a problem like that from a strictly-sound perspective.

Cameraless Filmmaking So Far

Welp, I haven't really decided how I like this whole idea of 'doing stuff to film and thats it'...it's definitely fun sitting in front of a newspaper pile with a strip of film and pouring colorful shit all over it, but how it's gonna look when i'm all done, i don't know yet.  One thing I know is when i put ink on film, it's a different thing for me because I'm used to putting ink on surfaces that absorb it, whereas film really doesn't want to accept it, so it's not as easy to manipulate. if you want a certain look to come from ink/oil you gotta have your gameplan prepared ahead of time, and even then it will probablt look differne than you thought it was gonna look.

I think its gonna be more my cupotea to incorporate the skills a got from practicing cameraless filmmaking into films with actual cameras and all that.  I'm interested in finding ways to combine the two.  Like scratching a cartoon humanoid hippo onto film that already had a guy having a conversation with nothing, knowing that eventually there was gonna be a scratchilly cartoon hippo there.  if that makes any sense.

Cymatics and Synesthesia

I'm not sure if this counts as synesthesia, but I have always imagined numbers in my head with certain colors attached to them.  For instance, 1 is green, 2 is purple, 3 is yellow, 4 is blue, 5 is pinkish orange.  Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that does count as synesthesia, but cymatics seems to be a much more compelling and artistic version of synesthesia.  I was a bit disappointed when I saw how cool it was to look at the sounds of the Pink Floyd song and the frame of the classical song, because it seems artists try so hard to get sounds and images to line up, but nothing works as good as getting the actual images that a sound physically makes through a machine.  I also really liked the images that I have found that use liquid in cymatics. Something about a pattern of vibrations in liquid that go along with a sound that is kind of hypnotizing to me.