artist statements

Loop 1:

Loop one expresses the concepts of temporal perception. In the piece, I used sound clips from Allen Ginsburg, Martin Luther King Jr., unknown fanatical preacher and a man reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Allen Ginsburg talks about how the future will perceive him and his generation and his speculations. MLK jr. talks about changing the future because of an unjust past and dangerous present. The fanatical preacher is representational of the extremist’s beliefs when the future seems to be most uncertain. Compositionally, the piece is laid out to make time feel uncertain and approached with much anxiety.

Loop 2:

Loop two is a symbolic representation of entropy. What better sounds than the sounds of space to help define the ultimate entropy. The universe is in constant decay, immediately after its creation it began to fall apart. In my piece I recreated that sense of birth, which lead to chaos and decay. With its defined beginning, middle and end, this sound piece gives the listener a real sense of entropy as it is defined with sound.

Loop 3:

Loop three talks about the world’s media culture and how it has consumed us all. The sound bits are from Russian TV and radio and some from the US media as well. The use of Russian clips is meant to be ironic and also telling of how America has poisoned the world with their Technicolor dreams and consumerist nightmares. So it follows that the world is full of static and advertisements and mindless entertainment that would control us all.

Loop 4:

Sound as an image. The rain falls hard during those long night in the northern Pacific. The waves and wind come crashing down like the siege of war that presses forth in the foggy air. As you the listener, sit huddled in a small boat offshore listening to destruction of your home. Sitting, hoping for a sign that it is over; there is a break in the shooting; have we won or is there even a home to return to?

it wont let me post images!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I have all the images on the CD that i used for the project.

loop 3 research

international broadcasting started in the 1950s

History of commercials: closely intertwined with the history of psychology. Designed to sway opinions, peak interests, encourage consumer activity

Capitalism depends on commercials and advertising to survive and thrive

Subliminal advertising was made illegal in the late 60s

Capitalist Russia now depends on the same advertising and brainwashing that runs America (oh, the irony)

loop 2 research

NASA website

Observatories collecting sounds from space

Radiation decay translates into audible sound as it hits the atmosphere

Reflecting protons off atmosphere creates the whistle sounds

Universe is in a constant state of decay: Big Bang Theory

Sounds collected by large satellite dishes designed to collect data from space

loop 1 research

mid 20th century was a time of changing ideas, attitudes and perspectives

Martin Luther King

Alan Ginsburg

They tried to inspire the world to change through the use of powerful words

The pen is mightier than the sword

These

These new ideas scared some and inspired others

Cold war

The apocalypse

Change can be scary, but so can stagnation

loop 4

Sounds of the sea

Waves... Constant movement...ebb & flow

POWER

Harnessing the power of the sea: we try, we succeed to a certain degree, but it is always more powerful,a losing battle

War

WWII: much fighting happened at sea

The great powers of the world fought eachother using and facing the greatest power... Nature

Mother nature sure can be a mother

Makes us feel small

Helpless

Alone

Overwhelming

War at sea from the human perspective

Fog: fear, mystery, suspense, danger, isolation, communication

Fog of war, fog at sea

Loop 3

culture

...and it's degredation

Media culture: tv radio movies

Advertisement=power over consumers

Best advertisement wins the dollar

Culture imposed on us by the media...
...we eagerly adopt it...
...it controls us.

America was subject zero. The virus has infected the world, and we have lost what we once had.

It seems to be getting worse.is it terminal...fatal???

Casualties: rich traditions, language, knowledge, species richness, diversity, architecture, the arts... Etc...

Adventure in travel seems almost lost... Golden arches on every continent

When will it STOP?!?!?

loop 2

what defines entropy?

everything is in a state of entropy

everything begins exists and ends

broad idea of ... space

time-space continuum

Breakdown of space into it's components

We are even present in the vacuum

Sounds of space are nothing more than the byproducts of radioactive decay and particle collisions on the atmosphere

loop 1

time: movement through time
from past to future, foresight, present
views of the past as it references the present
vantage point in time
continuation of time, repetitive
no resolution
time is forever

loop 1 is has 2 versions, a 30sec version (too short) and a 1 min. version that is the complete version.

The complete version takes the listener through all the aspects of relative time that I explained above.