I particularly enjoyed watching this video. The text is presented and animated in relation to the title and the meaning of the advert. I feel the text and the way it is shown on its own definitely adds something that a normal Apple advert with acting/dialogue would not, despite how simple it seems. It talks about perceiving things differently – which coincides with the context behind my sound/film being synaesthesia, where people with the condition naturally experience things differently.
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Synesthesia, a video by Future Shorts
This short video by Future Shorts presents in visual metaphors how the different senses e.g. taste, sound, colour, words can become mixed together in synesthesia. It could be showing one person’s perspective or many peoples – we aren’t shown this exactly. It’s implied that the taste of the fruit or veg produces a sound, and that words produce a taste; it implements different forms of synaesthesia and not just one. I like how the film progresses – the music speed up and more situations start happening simultaneously. The artistic, avant-garde elements of the film influenced me to make my film personal and somewhat artistic, though I feel that without knowing this film is about synaesthesia, the audience would be a little perplexed by it.
Seeing Sound
This is a video I have made exploring rhythm and pitch through oscillating wave forms such as: Sine, Sawtooth and Square.
‘Seeing is believing’, but is it?
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/the-listener-sound-vibration-nonduality-consciousness/
“We all know the expression “seeing is believing”; rarely do we hear someone say, “I heard it and so I believe it. A reason for the visual-centric focus is that the seeing faculty is more closely connected with conscious control. We can cover our eyes, but we will hear the truth anyway”
This quote really summarises the route I’ve taken with this project. ‘Seeing is believing’ is something that as a child around Christmas time you had to try your hardest in order to confirm your suspicion. However when I was a child and I heard Father Christmas AKA my dad creeping into my room with my stocking, why was it I never opening my eyes? Was is because deep down I knew he wasn’t real? Or was it because hearing was enough, hearing those sounds that lead to so much excitement that nothing more was needed? Again this is all to do with your conscious state of mind, but it really makes you wonder why.
With the film I’ve created the sound explores so much more than the visual. To watch without sound you’d see a flickering bulb. To the surface its flickering bulb thats annoying because its neither on nor off. But to listen without seeing gives you so much more. You begin to experience frustration thats out of your control, its almost consistent like an alarm, its ringing and its getting louder and it gives you a sense that somethings wrong. How is it that an image can seem so opaque yet sound can be so transparent to whats beneath or inside?
Why women are rarely accused of sexual assault
This is an interesting article about why women are almost always the victim in sexual assault and harassment cases. Through the massive Harvey Weinstein scandal, more and more people have come clean about their abuse history and it’s become clear that while sexual abuse occurs with both men and women, it is much less common for the victim to be male.
From Victim to Survivor TED talk
This TED talk by Lauren Book has inspired my film on sexual assault. While this talk is specifically about how Book overcame her childhood abuse, she advocates against all abuse whether it’s childhood or adulthood. Book talks about how the abuse challenged her when she was a child through to today. The way Book speaks is inspiring and emotional, and most importantly she connects with her audience. This talk has made me realise how extreme child sexual abuse is, as there’s an estimated 42 million child sexual abuse survivors living in the US today. I want my film to act as a PSA against sexual assault, and this TED talk has caused me to empathise even more with abuse survivors.
Geoffrey De Crecy’s Loops
Geoffrey De Crecy’s ‘Loops’ inspired the start point for my DPT project. De Crecy created looping illustrations of everyday objects that are almost hypnotic, shows a world of machines working by themselves. Seems like accessible route to play with sound and image of objects, e.g. everyday household object like washing machines/dryers, etc. Hypnotic element could be interesting route in to the sound and visuals for the DPT project, in terms of possible distortion. Furthermore, pastel sort of colour scheme creates a bit of a ‘dreamy’ atmosphere, making hypnotic element more convincing.
The 8 Stages of Practice Room Grief
This is a perfect representation of how I was like when I was 16 in my boarding house. I could always hear pieces being played perfectly from every room and I was there constantly screaming. I had to have my friends come and watch me play so I was forced into practicing. I’m still suffering from this.
Conscious, subconscious, unconscious mind
Having read this article, the way that the mind works with different parts of consciousness makes me think of my own personal memories. My idea for this project was to create sound that reminds the listener of times when physically you are not awake but when the mind is. That feeling when you’re not quite conscious yet.
“The unconscious mind is the storehouse of all memories and past experiences, both those that have been repressed through trauma and those that have simply been consciously forgotten and no longer important to us”.
I’ve based this project off a memory of when I was younger. I was involved in a fairly serious car crash and the memories I have of this event are sounds. absolutely no visuals. Was this because I was in a state of unconsciousness or because I’ve blocked the visuals out? I remember the moments before the crash and those afterwards but the stages in-between are purely sounds. I remember feeling as if I’d just woken up and as if my alarm was ringing in my ears, as if this was an alarm bell ringing due to what had happened). I remember hearing a scream, whether this was mine or my mums, this lingered while I awoke from unconsciousness, and the last sound I remember was silence right at the end, as if everything had stopped and I wasn’t there, when really this was when I was surrounded by noise from people and ambulances.
Reading this article really made me think about whether I suppressed this memory from the beginning or whether those are the sounds I heard. I’m unclear on what really happened but those memories are clear as the day it happened.
http://themindunleashed.com/2014/03/conscious-subconscious-unconscious-mind-work.html
Stranger Things: two worlds – two states of mind.
Having recently watched Stranger Things, I found the concept of ‘The Up Side Down’ really fascinating. With the work I’m developing, delving into how your mind functions between consciousness, Stranger Things shows similarities to how the real world and the up side down counteract.
In the sound I’m creating I want to portray the moment between consciousness, when you’re awake but not quite with it. I describe it as the lights are on but nobodies home. You’re conscious but with no sight or movement yet.
Stranger Things has a way of grasping this concept by the audio used, some reminds me of music that can related to death, the idea of seeing a white light and drifting towards it. It’s all really subtle hints that reflect a subconscious reality in a state of consciousness.
This trailer showcases the themes I’m describing through visuals and audio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxyRG_tckY