16mm experience

What can I say?

I scratched, bleached, doodled with sharpies and animated over clearleader,  The scratching turned things a greenish color before turning the image on the recorded 16mm transparent. The bleaching removed elements of the film stock, and the doodling created a sort of primitive animation overlay over the image.

The clearleader animations were mostly a waste of time, as I did not use enough duplicate frames to create a discernable moving image (the individual frames were projected too fast)

Nevertheless, my 75 frame tornado animation turned out decent (I supplemented the rest of the frames with alternate animations) , and my partner's creature animation turned out very well.

The magazine transfer seemed to jam the projector somehow, but it could be the wrinkles on the stock.  Anyway, I hope to see the final project on video.

 PS. Clearleader is kind of a blank film reel without any image or negative on it, designed to assist in projecting of film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_leader

Week 3 readings

In the conversation with R.Murray Schafer, he recounts the importance of creating natural soundscapes over the loud, urban "sonic sewers" of the city.  He also compared the noisiness of the past with the overpowering loudness of the present.

The film "Listen" emphasizes natural soundscapes and the importance of listening to the sounds that occur in the real world. Schafer recommends reducing the amount of sounds that exists by tuning out artificial noise.

In Justin Boyd's video, he focuses on stimulating his hearing and attention to details on sound. He created a sound archive using cassettes. Sound stimulates the imagination-apparently.  Boyd also likes to manipulate sound data by putting it through makeshift filters, such as a bucket. 

In the Acoustic Ecology, acoustic activism is defined.  The author talks about how this movement gave rise to the idea that natural soundscapes are hi-fi, and that artificial ones are low-fi. This article talks about the rise of sound preservation and the regulation of human noise. 

The article also talks about the use of natural soundscapes as a recording art that appears in several CDs.  EarthEar being the prime composite of popular soundscape recordings.

The author finally finishes by talking about his own experiences in listening to sound. 

In my personal experience, when I go outside, there is never an absence of manmade traffic sounds, even in the early morning. I suppose it's what happens when you live near a public street.