Implications

You might wonder why the title is called Implication...well to be honest, it's just random and yeah...

Though there's a reason why it's called implications.

Basically, Phase 1 --> Phase 2 --> Phase 3.
Or in other words, phase 1 implies phase2 and that implies phase 3 is coming up next.

Anyways, yesterday during lecture I took notes and wrote some of my own thoughts referring to the information I learned/received.

The following are what I typed out during the lecture:

- Can construct something to make it sound real
- Boundaries between something that is constructed and natural
- Francisco LOPEZ recorded the sounds of a Brazilian rainforest:
o The more time you spend listening to the recording, it helps expand the interpretations
o Without visual reference, things become more clearly
- Chris WATSON’s recording:
o Very harsh industrial
o Background noises/sounds
o Did not construct any sound
- There is manipulation going on
- It’s not just recording something but recording in a certain area or place to overlap and create interest and reality
- Jim FASSETT’s recording:
o Sounds very primitive and silly
o The composition is like a melody in a symphony
- Alvin LUCIER’s recording:
o Capturing result of the actual environment but adding in something where it’s created
- Complex sounds even if it’s just seems like a normal tone but it has overtone within the actual sound where it could be similar to a harmony
o These sounds give me a somewhat weird feeling. Like goose bumps because of how frequencies are like and it’s not like any normal sound I would usually hear
o Spending time with the material in order to know what sounds are in it
- Tod DOCKSTADER’s short wave radio receiver recording:
o Often you hear nothing but interferences where other waves are conflicting with each other
o Is it a real environment?
o However it is a documentation of reality where it is man-made
o Electronic voice phenomenon (EVP – 1950’s)
• Electronic engineers hear voices within the interferences of the recordings or radio frequencies
• Thought to be the sound of the dead
• Are these voices really just contextualizations?
• It is something of the imaginary where it helps constructs a certain reality and builds a reality onto it

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More notes and thoughts will be written soon...