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]