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Audio Troubles (Less Troubles, More Just Thoughts)

I’ve been doing some thinking over the weekend (and even though these are published back to back in a hurry, these were thought processes over several days), and I’m torn between two ideas on video organization. One on hand, I really like the idea of having some type of spoken word (not in the poetry sense) in the background while the clips are playing, but I also really like the idea of having nothing, just silence. I would like the spoken word to have something to do with the interaction between human activity and its environment (of course, human beings are a part of nature, but we have this contemporary idea of being above it, greater than it in a way). I asked my friend and second grandma Alexia (with whom I worked with at a local forest Brushy Hills, picking out invasive plants) if she wouldn’t mind being interviewed about this subject, with her audio being edited, cut, and placed over the clips. And while she was really excited about the prospect of being interviewed, she wasn’t sure that she would be able to fit our meeting in during the weekend. So it’s looking like we’re going with silence instead, which I might actually prefer. It brings this sense of dread… In a really good way! I’m excited!

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  1. UnknownJanuary 28, 2018 at 7:53 PM

    I too have been in limbo about what to do with sound versus silence. I really like your thought process though and the the depth you took into thinking about what you wanted. Even though she won't be able to do it, I truly believe that silence is equally as powerful as sound, and since you are doing part of Woods Creek, there is a layer of silence to the trail itself and nature in general.

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