I am writing the essay

During the time I am writing the essay, again and again to read back in order to make sure I didn’t stray from the point. “without explication” and “greater attentiveness” are key words in the essay, explaining how the soundscape draw great attention on the items or locale.

I always keep myself to talk around the quote with the soundscape. Now I want to say out something I figure out during the writing process, but I don’t know whether they are right.

A list of objects without explication, just like a list of orders without explanation . Those independent words in a list, or the voice, attracting people with no reasons. A list of objects without explication is very simple and pure, nobody forcefully add their mind on those objects. Literature that Ian Bogost says in his book, to some extant, is full of human subjectivity and individual ideology. Back to the list, just like back to the origin. Back to the items or other objects from explications (other people’s ideology).

When we are reading a story or narrative, our mind will follow the story line, even the ideology and Weltanschauung created by author, namely, our mind are controlled by author. We won’t focus on items that included in the story or narrative, story line is more attractive. However, a list of objects without explication has a power that draw greater attentiveness on objects. Actually, I want to say that the power of a list of objects without explication is currently correspond to a ability of human. The ability is the reaction of the world. What is that? This question I think could be a typical reaction of human to this world.

Feedback from class

We received many feedback from other classmates, first of all, thanks everyone.

I have to say that we made a big mistake that we forgot to record the read of our script. Soooo sad. Worse more, we can’t add it because those students in Germany have received our soundscape.

Soundscape from Offenburg

Sounds, last week we have uploaded and gave our soundscape to Offenburg in German, and today we received and listen to the sounds from Offenburg made by those Germany students. Their soundscapes are really interesting, fortunately they record that in English not in Germany, so we can understand.

What we will do for the next step is that thinking about the video to response soundscape from the Group four in German. This time we will focus on an object that expand.

Thinking the key concept of essay

The essay will due on the coming Thursday, read again and again the P40-41 that Professor Miles says.

Our soundscape’s subject is a kitchen, to connect the kitchen and ontology I need to focus on separated sound of kitchen. As Miles mentioned that the kitchen is empty in a long time, the sound will be rich when people stay in the kitchen. Pay attention to the empty kitchen, what sound will still exist while nobody use it.

Wk4_studio2 participation

Today is the due day of our project one, the noticing 2. I think that my group members are very co-operated, and the job done well.

It is a busy week but I finally competed the reading before Thursday. Oh I said that I will improve my reading methods to help me get fully understanding of reading. So this week , the chapter two of Ian Bogost’s book that I have read more than twice. Unfortunately, I don’t think I completed understand what Ian Bogost want to explain and express about the Ontology. That’s no problem, we gonna keep talk about the ontology in today’s studio. The good news is I think I can use or understand ontology to our project.

Also, there was a good news that our co-operated students in Germany have their blogs. I can’t stop my curious to read what happen to their class and study. What’s funny, I don’t understand German so I need to translate it by google translate.

Maybe those students will have more conversation with us on blog?

Ian Bogost (reading) chapter 2

The chapter 2 is talking more about ontology, the back of the chapter is more difficult to understand for me, compared to the front part.

Those poetry have a unbelievable magic, but seriously the way or style of poetry is what the teachers touch me can’t use, it is too simple and  useless. The ‘waters of March’ is so cool, fully reflect what Ian Bogost says in the book that ‘instead of worshipping simplicity, OOO embraces messiness. ‘

In the back of the chapter, Ian Bogost mention visual ontographs, I can’t understand the example he took. ‘François Blanciak’s speculative, paradigmatic architectural theory Siteless’, this example makes me confused. What exactly Ian Bogost want to explain clearly with this example?

 

Project update

Thanks to my group mate Joel Delamar, he is the sound editor in our group. He done the sound edit work already. We all hear the soundtrack, it was really good. But there are still some small mistakes. Like a part of the soundtrack is the sound of boiling water, the volume is too high. The whole soundtrack is only 55 seconds, not one minute enough. A great part of our soundtrack is staff’s sound, lacking human’s speaking sound.

Since last Thursday, we edit and edit our script of the soundtrack, we kept to rich the script, details in details. To Tuesday, Nina borrowed microphone from school and recorded the list of sound of script. Good jobs everyone.

Wk4 studio1, what I learn today

What I learn today?

Today’s class is really helpful, Professor talked lots of information and knowledge about the understanding of Ian Bogost’s book and ideology. I arrived late, so missed the first 30 mins. I will talk about the knowledge and information that leaved me a deep impression.

  • Start thinking: what do they do?

For example: what can sound recorder/camera/editor do to make a film? What machine can do? I agree that in lots of essay we need to discuss that what’s the meaning of something. In this case, the essay and the content will be sublime to some extent. But we need to think back that what do they do, which helps us to do practice, not the ideology discussion. What writing do? What editing can do? Writing is telling a story, then editor is work about relationship in time, based on color and others things. Like me, what I can do in our soundtrack project? The subject of our project is a room, then we chose kitchen. Then, what the staff in the kitchen can do, what sound they can make? To think about these questions can really help us to rich our soundtrack.

 

Pariticipation

There we will have our important first project in the coming week, and essay will due in the week after next week.

Now, in this blog, I am going to discuss three aspects to improve my study in this semester, to achieve my goals.

#1 Improved study methods

In the last few weeks, my study methods are: pay a attention to class to get important part, take notes when I am reading (Bad method), and update blog about something I notice and image. Then I will change the reading method that I used, this is a stupid method as Professor Miles said, we can’t take note at first time we read the readings. That wastes time and energies, seriously. In the coming weeks and readings, I will roughly read at the first time, then deeply read and research online for better understanding of readings. Keep to pay more attention to class. Keep update blogs, compared to before, I want to rich my blogs, making my blog includes more content across many areas. I’d like to spend the 10 hours (out of class studying time) on blog.

#2 Set targets

Although I am not that self-confident, I still want to get high score, you know, HD is the perfect result I really want to have. So set this as my final important targets. Before I arrive that targets, starting with details. #1 Well communication with group members, brave to share ideas in every meeting and discussions. #2 Competed the first project with our great encourage.

#3 What I done well.

Think about myself, firstly I updated at least five posts a week in the last few weeks. Secondly, I completed reading and took notes after the first reading. Thirdly, for understanding unknown ideologies and knowledge I got from reading and class, I will do research to rich myself. Then, until now, I participated in every class. Keep these.