At first, I found it hard to build from and apply the feedback I received from my practical list to creating this personal list, not because the notes were bad, but because vision and audio seemed so different. However,  after some careful thinking and pondering with classmates, I was able to think about “more variants in shot types” and come away with a project with a varied timeline of sounds and “incorporating more things within the space” helped me not being afraid to have sound overlap in my experiment. Through all that helpful and constructive feedback, my audio was born!

 

The idea for my personal list came from Sei Shonnagon’s ‘Pillow Talk’ piece, specifically in the phrasing. I think the way in which she words her list titles are simultaneously beautiful and funny, such as “Things That Are Distant Though Near” or “Cats” (Perkovic, 2013). I ended up titling my list “Things That Make Me Uncomfortable/Wince”, which I thought would be really interesting, but I didn’t really put together how uncomfortable I was really going to be whilst making it. I truly worked against myself comfort-wise here!

I felt a lot more confident working on this experiment over the first one because I feel like a practical list had to obey more logic than a personal one. This is a personal list to me, meaning that the piece could have as much logic and rhythm as I wanted it to, which was freeing creatively. It allowed me to play around with overlapping sounds, and sequencing them in a way that felt natural yet thought out. We as a class talked about how personal lists have a sense of identity within them, and the relevance of their purpose is determined by the individual, and I honestly felt that with this task. I think, because of this, I am going to like poetic lists!

 

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Reference List

Perkovic, J., 2013. Sei Shonagon’s Lists [WWW Document]. Guerrilla Semiotics

BBC Sound File LIst

Cellar wine bar – crowded at lunchtime.

Billiards, chalking cue. (Close perspective recording.)