https://soundcloud.com/sam-reimer/audio-process
Process Piece Artists’ Statement
If you
haven’t guessed by now, the audio process we chose was making on omelet. Even if the listener wasn’t able to nail down
specifically that it was on omelet, they were probably able to deduce that some
form of cooking was going on. This is
one of the reasons we chose this process.
We liked the idea of portraying something familiar in the interesting
audio-only point of view.
However, we
didn’t just choose this based on familiarity.
We considered how interesting it would actually be and determined that
the various sounds ranging from the hiss of the fryer, to the cutting of the
ingredients would have enough variety to hold someone’s attention as novelty
evolved into familiarity. At least,
after it had been edited down to the required time frame anyway.
Our process
piece is like some of the viewings we were assigned for class last week in that
we tried to portray an average, everyday occurrence from an interesting
perspective. Granted, the interesting
perspective was our only choice, but in terms of relating our choice of process
to the examples of processes in class, we went more the way of A Christian Farmer Barbecue than say, My Mom the Taxidermist. Instead of shock or bewilderment at
strange and foreign noises we felt it would be more relatable for our audience
to hear sounds that they could recognize and piece together as the process went
on.
While doing
this piece, we were reminded of Foley artists in the film industry and how they
deal completely in sound, often doing the very thing of creating processes
through sound. Though they are doing the
reverse of what we did for this piece by creating sounds for an existing image,
the thought process is related. In both
efforts, a conscious effort was made to form a coherent process through a
specific medium that you may not normally think about as being able to stand
alone.
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