When 2 become 1

Further experimentation with sound

If in doubt throw everything together and see what happens...

Text to Speech

After writing up a grey description of one of my photos, I asked my fellow arty type best friend Leah to record herself reading it, in one take. I chose to ask her as I wanted someone who hasn't seen the image, to look at how successful (or not) I was in communicating visual information through words.

With the idea of presenting the photo as a sound work, rather than image, I edited the sound clip and added a white space, with the intention of it blending into the white walls of the gallery space.

This was the result:

I then experimented with how tone of voice and emotion affects the communication. To do this I used google translate TTS, to create a flat, monotonous and continuous voice.

Aspect Lecture #4

Fiction

Here are my highly anticipated lecture notes on 'Fiction' by James Fisher.

note: Thinking about changing the space between the viewer and figures in the work just really reminded me of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you can watch the opening monologue here and I'd highly recommend it even if you've already seen it before:

Other than that...the most important things I took from the lecture were;

• Thinking about your relationship with the material and thinking about the making process; is it autobiographical?
• Thinking about news way to tell stories, through photography and film.
• How do you know when a story is over? How do you know when something's finished?