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"the medium is in the | Question: "How does the sentence “The medium is the message” by Marshall McLuhan applies to your practice? Comment on this quote in the context of your own work and in regards to this transcontinental collaboration, etc." | ||
Jamilah: | |||
There's immediacy in film and video. We watch content and it registers in our mind as some kind of organized structure. We may not be able to interpret it one way or another but the image is received. | There's immediacy in film and video. We watch content and it registers in our mind as some kind of organized structure. We may not be able to interpret it one way or another but the image is received. | ||
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In regards to transcontinental collaboration--creating true affective experiences can be achieved if that's the goal of the collaborators. | In regards to transcontinental collaboration--creating true affective experiences can be achieved if that's the goal of the collaborators. | ||
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The medium has a big influence on the message which is transported but the medium needs a message to become important. | |||
Question: "American sound artist Bill Fontana made several pieces in which he transfers sound from one location to another. How does this locational switch change our understanding of a the space(s) in question? What new aspects of a sonic environment might emerge? What happens to our perception of a location once it is stripped from its original sounds and these are replaced by sounds from another location?" | |||
Jamilah: | |||
It makes me think that space is embodied. To hear a sound that doesn't seem to fit the location would trigger memory--the process of remembering a familiar sound, seeing an image of that sound. It may turn into an affective memory if we give it time. We trace the sound to a place from our past and perhaps relive that memory or experience the moment a little bit deeper. | It makes me think that space is embodied. To hear a sound that doesn't seem to fit the location would trigger memory--the process of remembering a familiar sound, seeing an image of that sound. It may turn into an affective memory if we give it time. We trace the sound to a place from our past and perhaps relive that memory or experience the moment a little bit deeper. | ||
The sonic environment can truly become something new. | The sonic environment can truly become something new. | ||
"instrument through which sound is transmitted | Cornelius: | ||
It is possible to give a space a different meaning. Normally sound is always linked to an image in a way that makes sense or seems to be logic. What you see is what you hear. It gets interesting if this relation stops. | |||
In our example (exchanging sounds from recorded places in Weimar and San Diego): | |||
For people who don't know either region, the transformed video could make sense. | |||
The difference has to be immense to start thinking, or you would have to know the regions and its sounds you are seeing. | |||
The switch of sounds can sharpen our awareness of listening. | |||
Question: "How does an instrument through which sound is transmitted shape our expectation and the perception of it (loudspeaker, telephone, alarm-clock), in other words, what if the expectation is not met, what impact can this have on our perception?" | |||
Jamilah: | |||
The moment becomes uncanny. | |||
Cornelius: | |||
If the Sound from a device does not meet the listeners expectation, he first will be distracted. Then he will pay more attention to the content because he has to start thinking about what he is listening. | |||
If the | |||
Mixed Videos: | Mixed Videos: | ||
[https://www.dropbox.com/s/tteh8zl9kl6kezb/Video%20SD%20-%20Audio%20W.mov] | [https://www.dropbox.com/s/tteh8zl9kl6kezb/Video%20SD%20-%20Audio%20W.mov] | ||