Q1. 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.
Q2. 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?
First, we think the quality of the sounds being transfer from one place to another is really important for the listener, if the sounds can be reproduce without any distortion and playback in a n appropriate volume, the listener will have a lot of reference points to determine whether these sounds are from the real environment or cleverly played in this space. On the other hand, if the sound quality not that good listener will lose most of the reference point, and make judgement by using few points. Therefore, it's easy to let the listener make a misjudgment in the environment with poor sound quality. But once the sound sender took all of the reference points, and process the sound that the listener will much easy to accept these pre-prepared sound as the real sound in the space.
For example, during our conversation I can hear some birds sound from Ludwig's place, then he move the camera to the window want to show me the birds in the woods, I still hear the bird singing but I just can't see any birds in the screen.
Q3. 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?
Videos
We choice the train station as our theme, we shoot those video in San Diego Old Town Transit Center and Weimar Train Station. We take the door open moment as our reference point then switch the audio from each other.
San Diego + Weimar mix
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