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Blog Response
Blog Response
Blog Response
Blog Response
Time Journals
Time Journals
Time Journals
Time Journals Fall 2020
This sound piece was made thinking about Sarah Sze's concept of expanding memories and piecing the layers back together again, while nodding to the work of Alvin Lucier and reflecting on Kaprow’s thoughts of John Cage’s creation of sound. Words in this piece consist of memory, memories, expanding, feeling, love, growth, growing, remember, remembering, younger, older, seeking, and seeing.
Expanding Memory
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Using clips of my own voice, I create an audible space thinking about previous artists used themselves -their body/voice- to create. I found that while most works comment on present social, personal and political matters there are still little ambiguous nods to the future. In this present moment there are feelings of unclarity, lack of information, injustice and yet hope resides eerily in strange spaces creating a swelling haze in a growing headspace --something that I hoped to produce -and continue to produce- with collected sounds
A Swelling Haze & A Swelling Haze Alternate
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Sometimes we have to look back in order to look forward to see new scenarios, opportunity, and faces. There needs to be a search through of the modern day and sound that will be heard and known... in order to hear and know the unknown.
Creating a soundscape of recycled and new material, I want to hear what a future can sound like in various forms, while also reflecting of what I had done to get here.
a Search for the Time Before to Soon be After
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Time Journals Spring 2020
Age is a part of the social construct of time
Yet
Time is infinite and Life is finite
We like to think that our lives will create a legacy
A way of remembering
When we are gone
To live through life again.
But life is only a memory
of things that had been and are happening now
no one knows the future
the only thing we know is to remember and listen,
only time will tell.
Even still, the knowledge we had grasped
is held tight within our fist,
producing a scene of prediction
causing conscious suspicion that looks to tear us apart.
For the more time we spend with time
the more we realize a steady pattern
old habits don't fully die
they evolve.
Time
Relationship with Time
I do not mind the concept of time. Although it is a machine that we have created, it holds far more powerful things that we do not know... literally WE DO NOT KNOW. Everything that we do know is a memory. We do not know what will happen tomorrow or even in the next five minutes, it is a complete mystery that only time will tell. We tell ourselves that everything will blow over in time or that things with last through the ages, but I like to think in the present. For things that have happened are done -we can only learn from those, and things that are in the future are unknown -despite our optimistic minds. I am not afraid to get older, quite honestly, I embrace it, no matter how little amount of knowledge I own. But I like to think of time in the present because time has brought me here, to this place and this moment, to be with certain people. I may not understand it -quite frankly it is overwhelming at times, but here we are.
Ending the Past
The more I get to know it
The more it holds me.
I wonder if it will let me down softly
or
try to keep within its space forever.
I wonder if I am giving too much of myself to this being
that we have created
never wanting to be late
never wanting to have the wrong kind
and always wanting
more.
I have always been curious
now I feel I know too much in places
to put back what I had thought.
I never truly understood
and maybe I still just need
more time.
The more I get to know it
The more it holds me.
I wonder if it will let me down softly
or
try to keep within its space forever.
I wonder if I am giving too much of myself to this being
that we have created
never wanting to be late
never wanting to have the wrong kind
and always wanting
more.
I have always been curious
now I feel I know too much in places
to put back what I had thought.
I never truly understood
and maybe I still just need
more time.
And So On
There is a stillness to the day
a kind of peace that unsettles my brain
as I try to find a piece of mind
The days before never bothered me
like they do now
not a panic
not a worry
Just a lot of layers to peel
Just a lot of layers to feel
And so on.
It's Within You
I told myself to make a list
of the things I want
And
the things I missed
But the pen in hand leaves no mark
and the paper lays unengraved
as my exhausted brain tries to conceive
Time has given me a chance to believe that what was necessary
is no longer an option
and knowing what is real is
hard
when each day
feels like an endless unwanted detour
and yet you are missing no action
I guess what I am trying to say
is that I do not know what I want
or what I have missed
but their something about the ignorance
that gives me little bliss
It's Within You Pt2.
As I told myself to make a list
I thought about the people I met
the things that were discovered
and a new love to create
all new things
once foreign
now a friend
video art and media
a new way to keep track of time
a new way to reveal
I enjoyed this class with more love than I thought I was going give
Because I was unsure and didn't know much
but
it all turned out
I enjoyed it too much to end
and I want to keep learning
for as much
as my brain will let me
Until we meet again.
May we all meet again.