Kyle's Web Site O' Sound and Free Love
My object(s)
This is the sound of some keys jingling. I am going to put this sound in my first project. This will be the sound that comes from the memory of my father. It will also be the protagonistic sound of salvation against the evil empire of the dirty, sassy lions.
This is the sound of a very masculine lion. I'm gonna put this in the background of my first project as the instigating sound juxtaposing the soothing sound of the saving keys.
This is the sound of slow deliberate footsteps. I decided to use these in my project instead of the quicker steps. I felt this would give the steps a sense of sturdiness.
This is the sound of quicker footsteps. I did not use these for my first project but they still sound cool.
This project has a lot to do with memories of my father and the way I percieved him when I was younger. Whenever he would walk into a room I would hear his keys jingling so I would know to expect him. That is why the keys are the centerpiece for my sound project. This project can also be taken in a metaphorical sense in the fact that there is a zookeeper who is keeping all of the growling dark animals at bey with his cool, shiny keys. The keys jingle in and out of the piece to give the audience a sense of depth. The lions in the background growl so as to convince the listener of depth also. They do, however, growl in the same pattern.
I put these sounds together with others to make my first project.
This is my second project. It Rocks!!!
This project was initially supposed to deal with the relationship between significant noise and insignificant noise. The relationship between these two was explored. However I allowed myself to stray from the beaten path and did some experimenting with how the insignificant sounds made me feel and also with the images they conjured in my mind. The first minute or so of the project centers around the sound of static I found on the internet and also created on my own. When I first heard these static sounds I thought of the one thing they reminded me of the most. That would be 80Ős rock music, of course. I molded hard rock guitars around the static and the staticy voices of 80Ős rock singers. Now this is where it gets interesting. The insignificant noises of people talking in the background, children laughing, and crickets chirping in the night also reminded me greatly of a Louisiana fiddle being played around the campfire. I filled this environment with the overwhelming sounds of crickets churping, children talking and laughing, and running water. The sound of a country fiddle holds the environment unlike the static in the first part. This second part is very good for the piece because it draws off of the opposite world of the static rock. This environment is peaceful and nourishes the senses. At the end of the project these two worlds collide. Significant and insignificant noise are intertwined just as peace and anarchy meet face to face.
This is my finest work to date. I made a soundpiece to go along with my stereotypical view of what a real cowboy is. It can be heard by itself but you might want to listen to it with my footage. I used many of my favorite cowboy movies such as The Searchers, A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Young Guns, Bucth Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Tombstone and made a montage of all of the cool sequences. This sound project, mind you, is totally asthetic and shallow and is based on the outward personalities of my cowboy heroes. This basically means the coolest ones are the ones I picked. I recorded the clips using my mini DV camera and edited in camera. (I must say I did a fabulous job). You can tell it is shot outside of the T.V. because of the grainy appearance and the dark tint covering some of the screen at certain times. At first I was very disheartened by this fact but in the end it added to the overall theme of my project.
I used sound clips from these movies mostly from the personalities I was drawn to. These are entertwined with my two favorite cowboy songs. One of them gives a strong sense of strength, courage, and honor, while the other feeds off of the darker side of these men we put up on pedestals. All of the sounds were recorded by a marantz and had a grainy, staticy feel to them. The songs at certain points seem to be coming from far away. This was intentional and went a long way to increasing the effectiveness of the cowboy clips. There are four main cowboys that are focused on in this sound piece. John Wayne as Ethan in the Searchers, Clint Eastwood as Blondie in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone, and Emilio Esteves as Billy the Kid in Young Guns. In the sound piece they all have certain personalities in the way they are presented as they talk. Clint Eastwood and John Wayne are the two stalwart fathers of my piece, so one takes the left and the other takes the right. Emilio Esteves is the brat prince of my piece so reality bends to his lunacy and chaos ensues with sound when he is in the piece. Doc Holiday is my Jack in that the music moves for him to either side.( He is a southern gentleman and would abide nothing less.) The sound in the piece is synched up with the images to give a feel of old western magic but also to invite juxtaposition of the messages these personalities are giving on screen. For instance, when John Wayne is in the sound piece at the very end he is shooting a gun several times but in the video he is peacefully taking his leave after seeing his family safely home. These cowboys came off as heroes but may have been playing at being violent madmen. I , however, get a rush from their ironic villany made heroic. They are heroes with flaws and angers just like all men. That is why they are heroes.
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