OH SNAP: On the Week 6 Yellowlees reading

How incrediballs is this? I have already reflected on this reading in a previous blog entry! I became a bit obsessed with it actually.

The reading by Yellowlees regarding Hypertext also influenced a piece I did for EMT last semester, as my sound narrative aims to be an act of ‘reading as guided creation’.

My narrative centers around a group of socially awkward boys at a party and follows the tale of their quest to kiss a girl on the dance floor. The piece references other texts heavily, with dialogue from films like Napoleon Dynamite, Lord of the Rings, Anchorman and Space Jam as well as the tv show Workaholics. I chose these sound clips because of their clearly recognizable nature, some (such as the Workaholics, Anchorman and Napolean Dynamite clips) aid in creating the social ineptness of the characters as the texts depict similar figures, while others further the narrative as they refer to ‘being on a mission’ (LOTR).

This piece draws upon elements of Hypertext in that I present the listener with very little linearity or causality so it is up to them to form their own connections between these familiar yet disparate parts of sound. However, at the same time their interpretation of the narrative is guided by the parameters I have set up in the editing process, ie. Adjusting volume to draw the listeners attention to particular sounds, the structure of my narrative building to a climax.