Archive for the ‘oven’ Category
stop/start
running away is what i do for a living/i’m sick of it.
i tried to recall the beginning of it all; the reason i chose this topic. i said i had forgotten but i realised i didn’t. it was meaningful to me. it was important. i wanted to deal with it and deal with the problems that had been bugging me for years. but all that i have done to deal with it is to not deal with it. i thought about coursework. i’m glad i did it although i never showed it to him. at the very least in the process, i came to terms with the fact that one day he will leave. i want to believe what i’m doing now is meaningful as well. thus i have decided to treat it as another coursework. i will think of it as art and work on it as design. it will be a diary of a certain sort, a book, a publication, chaptered into my personal experiences relating to communication within a family. mine. through the use of analogy and puns in writing and design. i want this project to be an intimate conversation with my audience. there are too many things that i cannot change completely, but i could at least make people rethink and relook. even if this is in vain, at least i might be able to open up my heart to it then.
kandinsky
“Music has a grammar, which, although modified from time to time, is of continual help and value as a kind of dictionary.” –Kandinsky, 1914
http://ashleyjohnpigford.com/?page_id=152
experiment II
collect audio recording of people saying the same sentence: “let’s go out tonight”. analyze the quality of the sounds and how they affect my reception of what the speaker says. conclude what makes a nice sound.
experiment I
collect photographs from people of people who are music to their ears. describe the characteristics of their voices, conversations with them, their personality. translate into visuals.
miscommunication
personal bias
personality of the speaker
content of conversation
silence
error in translation
language barrier
tone
music to the ears
sweet
cheeful
soothing
calming
joyous
whimsical
expressive
rythmic
not too much
not too loud
not too fast
laughter
whacky
don’t whine
don’t vent
considerate
start
voice
conversation
the way you say
what you say
publication?
inner voice
what you actually think
voice is how you want to be heard
what others heard about you
questions
when do we say what we didn’t mean?
when do we stop listening?
when do we stop to listen?
why do we keep silent?
what do we hear everyday?
what do we like to hear?
how do we shut our ears?
the ambiguities of conversation II
you thought i knew, you didn’t say;
i thought you heard, i didn’t ask.
driftwood 