Listen to the first 10 minutes of Glenn Gould’s radio documentary, “The Idea of North”.

The idea of North 10min.wav or Files are here (experimenting with different sizes and file types) If possible, use headphones.  Record your impressions in a paragraph or two.

At the beginning I was unsure of what to expect as I was given no context whatsoever to the piece. I found that the woman’s voice was very unappealing and it made me not want to listen. The other voices came in and I got extremely frustrated. it was too busy, I had no idea what was going on- I thought that I had opened another link or a separate video was playing somewhere. i realised it was just the “texture” of the radio doco when I paused it. It made me feel very uneasy, there was just too much. When it finally settled, I had realised I was only listening because I had to, not because I was interested in what was going on. The background noise was too much for me. It was way too loud and instead of creating a mood, it just layered too much texture, making everything an audial blur. Bleugh. Hated it.