It was great to get our first in class assignment out in the open and receive feedback as well as listen to the works of others. It’s been a helpful process for learning about audio as a medium. As I’m not particularly confident in the audio field I am very critical of the work that I’ve done and generally judge it harshly – however the feedback is promising and provides a more positive light on things.

I think improving my skills can only improve with more practice each week, listening to podcasts as much and as often as I can and also pushing myself to do things outside my comfort zones.. Such as recording my own voice!

Brian’s guest lecture was interesting and produced some intriguing discussion around the discourse of Transgression and relating it back to the medieval carnival. The idea of transgression and transgressing becomes more apparent with each week and this gives me confidence in pursuing the ideas for my main project.

Thinking about the final assignment this early on has given me a bit of inspiration and helped guide me in the right direction. Now that I have a better understanding of audio and transgression I feel a lot more confident and feel like my idea is going to be a real possibility. I’d like to use my Grandfather as a subject and talk about the idea of people movements and displacements during or following conflicts, and the prejudices that might be placed on them by society. The way that society transgresses against these kinds of people. His story is an interesting one, being a product of WWII era Germany. As it is something that interests me it helps to motivate my work towards achieving this outcome!

My goal is to find some great audio works to inspire me and provide some ideas – alas due to my inexperience in the field I have had somewhat of a troublesome time finding anything that is remotely interesting to listen to in the history field regarding podcasts and radio documentaries. They all seem to be general history book style informative pieces!