Already this semester has been a major turning point for my work. In addition to returning to the familiar medium of photography, I also plan to continue working with the more recent narration practice and to incorporate a completely new element; using sounds collected from various sources.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been collecting ambient sounds from specific places at various times of the day. I document the name of the place, as well as the date and time the recordings were made. I've also recorded interviews with my mother and grandmother. I consider these sounds, like the photographs I've been taking, raw material to work with once I return home.
Click video below to hear a recording sample of my grandmother's backyard on August 17, at 7:49 pm.
Here is a brief list of goals and ideas in regards to sound and narrative elements in my work:
- Research technical aspects of ambient and viewer initiated sound.
- Rosemarie Trockle and Lynda Benglis
- Continue writing, keep a commonplace book and daily reflectionnaire.
- Think about looping/overlapping narratives vs. voice/movement activated narration (presented as chapters).
- Continue to record writings and experiment with different methods of storytelling.
- Record interviews with family (perhaps people I meet during trip to Harris County).
- Do a lot reading, like, a lot. Academic/non-fiction and lift my self-initiated ban on fiction that I started at the beginning of the program.
- Consider reading a play or two
- Collect moving images for use in installation.
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