Proposal for Audio Assinment

Title - US train trip

I'd like to recall the past winter break when I had train trip
from Chicago to LA, and from there to Washington DC.
The beginning and ending will be covered with some sound of
train station and some other sounds from the actual train.
I remember few nights I had to move the seat because a guy
sitting behind me was snoring so loudly, based on my own experience
I'll collect sound related to that and edit them.

Also Chicago, LA and DC are distinctively big cities in the US.
I'm expecting to find out some more interesting sounds that can make us to assume like,
"Aha! This sound should have come from ___!!''
But now I'm still collecting these things, I don't know what they would be about yet.

The basic structure of my audio project will be;

• Wind
• Chicago Union Station
• Train sound/ sound from inside of the train - such as, snoring guys, laughing kids, radio announcements
• People chatting/reading books

• LA Union Station
• Hollywood/beaches/
• Spanish talking/Chinese/Korean
• Police car siren sound
• Cars/Metro/Tax/
• LA Union Station

• Sound in the train-movie, songs, chatting, coughing, sneezing, snoring, foot steps
  
• Washington DC Union Station
• Wind
  

-http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
-http://214spring.blogspot.com/

Lance Winn's Talk

Lance Winn
29 January, Library 321

Lance Winn from University of Delaware works through drawing, performance/video, installation, an recently robotics, to explore the types of distortion that happen when we traslate and reproduce information.

I liked that scattered letters, no matter it has a meaning or not, could be art.
Feeling of Dadaism, I realized that the current of modern art is getting to cover the broader part of our life. Winn also showed some of his video clips. I remeber one of them, which was filmimg of smoke coming in and out consistantly from factory chimneys, like breating animals.
In somehow, the video reminded me of smoking people who smoke cigarrette and unconsciously breathe the chemicals into their vernarable organs. And also it seemed to me the art work try to warn us the hidden danger of air pollution that we produce everyday.

http://www.udel.edu/art/winn/

American Visionary Museum

American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore
1.27.07'

Frankly, I did not go into the actual museum even though
I stepped on the front door of the museum
because the admission fee was too high for me. T-T...
A night before I went to Baltimore, I searched Internet where to go in Baltimore
and I found out this museum, sounding interesting for me.

This museum deals with visionary art which means according to its website:

"Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself."

That sounds quite interesting but I decided to try to comfort myself by browsing the sculpture plaza and giant whirligig outside of the museum,
which means you can enjoy inspecting the art for free! (Yeb, I like free stuff, haha..)
As I walked around there, I could have an idea what the visionary artists
want to do. It is not about the things that you can see as an art,
it could be everything, could be art, could be an object,
could be a commercial purposed product.

How cool is that! The art creator can make whatever he or she likes
as long as we can see and sense it.
There is no general artistic standard, but the freedom of expression. I liked this notion because that makes possible for everybody to be artists.
I want to try this museum next time. ^^

The Walters Art Museum

Last Saturday, January 27 I went to
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD.

The art works in the museum were so great.
I liked the diversity and the range of the collections,
spanning some 55 centuries from ancient Egyptian art to late 19th century European paintings and decorative objects.

Before I entered the museum, the first thing that I noticed was
the big sign written "Admission Free,"
and also even from the pamphlet it was stressed.
Some museums are free admission for everyone,
like The Walthers Art Museum, but some are not.
How do these can exist? What is the difference between
two museums? What makes them to charge the admission fee?

In a confusion, these questions kept popping up in head.
As it says from the first reading "The Use of the Forms,"
we are so sensitive at the production of capital which is so called 'art.'
It was a sorry experience from the Walthers Art museum.

[picture-At the Café- source from : The Walters Art Museum website]

Melissa Dean's Art Gallery

'Consumed'

prints by Melissa Dean.
24. Jan. 2007

I get so impressed every time I go to an art gallery . The title of Melissa's gallery in St.Mary's college was 'Consumed.' I was wondering how she will take us to her world.

There were several of her print art works in Montgomery Hall. It was interesting to attend the artist's talk because I have never had an opportunity to listen to any artist about their works before.

As I listened to Dean, I understood her work concept better and the explanation actually made me more interested in her works.

Creatively she used the image of camera in order to show our visual culture. The objects that she used were not a rare or new items, but day-to-day objects that we normally live with, use constantly without noticing the beauty of them. Dean did not created the beauty, but did investigate it and renovate it with a value that she wanted to put into it. I liked her attempts and ingenious ideas.

Listening to the 20th cnetury

"DJ Food - Raiding the 20th Century" is an amazing
piece of the sound mixing art.
Until I listened to this, I have never thought that
sound mixing itself could be a form of art.

I don't know others but I have a tendency to regard
art is to be seen but not to be heard, or
sound is just an additional element for visible art works,
except master pieces of music.

As I listened to this work I could not only stop nodding
my head according to the rhythm,
shaking my feet, but also thinking about
what this mixture of various kinds of sound, such as
instrumental and digital sound, pop songs, raps, parts
of speeches, and advertisements, is trying to tell us,
and what the artist wants to represent through this work.

The artist, Strictly Kev, uses an interesting method to tell his opinion
by repeating some words, such as 'liberty,' adding some funny lines,
for example 'sorry for interrupting you, but we are short of time,'
'John is not crazy.' His work is inspiring me and changed my
typical mind about art. And also starting with the 20th Century Fox
theme intro and ending with its outro is relevant to prove his
main theme "Everything Has To End..."

Links for "The Use of Forms"

Mike Kelley - Garbage Drawing

For me as an Asian, this was the first thing that drag my interest in the article.
I couldn't bear without figuring out what it is.
So I browsed the web and found some information.

His works has pretty deep meaning in it.
The article says that "the ensemble blends heterogeneous aesthetic universes..."
From the picture I can find what it means.
It was a fresh attempt to blend all these universe particles in a religious statue.

terms from " The Use of Forms"

Since I am not very used to artistic terms and the names of artists,
especially contemporary art terms made me search Internet to figure out
what the article is talking about and who they are.

Here I brought some of important terms to help to understand better:

• Lettrist International, or Lettrism
• Situationist International
• Surrealist and Dadaist

A response of "The Use of Forms"

The article "The User of Forms" was interesting to read.

It was about the contemporary movement of the modern art and its state.

I liked that the article uses a lot of evidences by telling us

a number of artists and their work world.

Especially, the article does not only deal with art itself, but also

music, technology and politics in the relevant perspective.

As one being interested in art and music,

and also I realized that it is already true that there is not very big gap between

consumers and producers. I found the link and connection from them as myself could be

a consumer and also a producer by using a form.

More and more I can find the state of the present art even around me.

Althoguht free market does not sound possible but

we can find them from the huge market of information in Internet.

My first link of Mexican super heros

This is my link to Dulce Pinzon.
This page is talking about the Mexican immigrant in US who work in hard conditions
for very low wages to send it for the family in Mexico.
There are some pictures of these workers in hero costume.
These Mexican workers are symbolized as heroes and heroins
in a sarcastic way.