GRAIN

~show tonight at vitae~

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SUNDAY 3/8/2009
SKIN GRAFT (scum destroyed sound, nothing pretty... on tour)
DAVID RUSSELL (spastic aktion from former ohio-turned-chicago rager... on tour)
DR. QUINN MEDICINE WOMAN (???????)
AARON DILLOWAY
BODY COLLECTOR 
NEW PLEDGEMASTER

What is Purity? Or, I went hunting in the morning.

I had me a long day and it's only 3 PM.

Brendan, Anna and I videotaped at the Metro Detroit Airport today with almost no hassle!

A major success as all footage is crisp, clean and colorful. Anna was in charge of documenting the process producing excellent photographs. They look like album covers, each one of them!

This pertains to the spatial relation between Eno's ambient philosophy blurring with noise cultures.

Brendan is out right now interviewing Kelly again on the subject of living most of her life in a 5 by 5 foot practice room. This will set us off the educational aspect of the film as we show the "music" life, a sort of 'forced' obsession. Personally, it's difficult to discuss this area but let me tell you this: I have a lot of friends that have had their instrument beaten out of them. Pressured Pianists, Disjointed Double Bass players, Corrosive Cellists. They can be bitter sometimes over such a nice instrument.

But here's some place where I need help. 

To put into perspective the definition of noise, I would like to talk to a specialist about Heart Beats at a maternity ward. To find the baby's heartbeat, the mother's heart is dominating and dwarf's the faint heartbeat of the child. In this case, the mother's heartbeat is noise and must be cancelled out. I want to have a little interview on this process for soundbytes however, I have no connection with any hospital's maternity ward.  If I can get comments on where to begin, I would be most grateful.

Then, What is it?

in the midst of figuring things out, we captured various moments in film and audio - subconsciously constructing little narratives in diagrams and footage as you can see our thought processes. then, our brains started to hurt.

ah been sick

I've been sick so I'm falling behind.

This kind of stuff happens after I make a rough cut, or rough draft, or some BIG THING. I stay up late and it happens to kill me. I've been missing classes as a result, staying home - hopefully not making my roommates sick. At this rate, I am replacing my blood with soup and my soft tissue for kleenex. Deadlines have a bolded dead within their lines. Postcards are in the making, I suppose that makes them Precards.

Moss & Mold

I made a roughcut. It's roughly 12 minutes long and no where near where I'd like it to be - but there is progress. So far, we feature landscapes, an automatic instrument (music box), a quick idea of noise and music, a performance of henry cowell's piece on the piano, a vague soundbyte from noisecamp, various acoustic noises  (white noise, pink noise, etc.), an animation of dots reacting to sound (for demonstrative purposes), a sound test by a noise musician (finding the right sounds triggering memory from a previous show/ 'rockin out'), quick definition of feedback as well as a video of feedback, finally... zone out while listening to organ drone as ice sheets flow on the huron river.

I've compiled the footage together without consulting the rest of the group so I'm curious to see their critique. I've also have been editing until late nighttime so my choices aren't exactly clear. I am excited for the amount of care and trust that is happening within the group.

I found two sites that have math-stronomical audio renderings that may be of resource to the project. The first features the sound of the big bang, compressed into 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 second increments. This may be a good way to start the project or at least to explore the concept.

http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound.html

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~dmw8f/sounds/cdromfiles/index.php

Feedback Particles Experiment

I have taken the approach of mixer feedback to create and i was imagining ways to help create synesthetic representations of the sound.

with after effects i made this test:

the sound controls aspects of the composition's scale, gaussian blur amount and field of view.

in the piece i hope to incorporate these particles into our surroundings, responding to our creation.

this video explains mixer feedback pretty well,

there's a little too much caution though.

omg hai

WELL. Things are/ Things be 

I have satisfied the previous post. There is a new light.

Ian & I have erected a facebook group simply titled noise documentary.

Through the assistance of word of mouth, through us (Brendan now included)

we have amassed 109 members (and climbing, although will soon reach a stablizing point)

These folks are:

• fellow students
• musicians
• artists
• alternative education teachers
• scientists
• engineers
• supporters

There are posts where members can share their two cents, links and all-such.

People have footage, poetry and recordings.  Access is delivering across.

This part is slowly trickling in but soon, it will be too much. 

When it is too much, it will be lovely.