#reference analysis

“I feel like I’m wandering through the lost epilogue to Our Town.”

Veronica Lodge in 1x01 The River’s Edge (2016), written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Our Town (1938), a play by Thornton Wilder: Our Town tells the story of a small town, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, in order to tell us the story of every town, the whole world over. Narrated by the “Stage Manager”, we follow the Gibbs and Webb families, residents of Grover’s Corners, through twelve years of life changes -- from the mundane in Act I, “Daily Life,” to the romantic in Act II, “Love and Marriage,” to the devastating in Act III, “Death and Eternity.” Through the young lovers Emily and George, their strong and loving parents, and the many other Grover’s Corners’ locals, Wilder delivers universal truths about what it means to be human. “Oh, earth,” Emily Webb exclaims towards the play’s end, “you’re too wonderful for anyone to realize you.” [x] 

Reference analysis: Overtreders W

Reference analysis: Overtreders W

Project 1: Class Reference 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZXBia5kuqY

One Collective Breath: Janet Cardiff's 'The Forty Part Motet' | KQED Arts

I really liked this idea of creating your own virtual choir, and to record it so convincingly that it could transport you to a huge echoing cathedral or church where it was originally recorded. 

I think it shifts sound design from something every day and ordinary into something magical. Actually listening to a choir, I’d probably get bored and not appreciate the music, but by distilling the sounds and the people into all these separate speakers, I feel like it’s constructing and them reassembling the choir in a way that’s so exciting and original. 

Project 1: Reference Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

QSound Labs ( http://www.qsound.com ) as a demonstration of Binaural audio technology.

Again, this piece I first heard YEARS ago back in year 7 or 8. It went around my group of friends quickly and everyone wanted to give it a try. We originally only viewed it as a soft horror prank, a way of scaring a reaction out of our friends and laughing at their fear.

It was the first time I’d ever listened to a 3D Sound Technology piece, even though they are quite common now. It seemed crazy to me how seamlessly the creators could make you believe you were inside a barbershop getting your hair cut by a chatty man.

When the plastic bag is pulled over the victims head, and the scissors snipped far too close to the ears for comfort, we all naturally flinched and shied away from the sounds, because they were so realistic for a second - we believed the illusion. Even the simple task of the barber walking a semicircle behind the victim felt surreal, that the sound could travel from one ear bud over to the other. I’d never heard a sound piece that targeted this feature of earphones so obviously before and I found it hella exciting as a 13 year old nerd. 

Listening back now I think some of the magic is lost on me, but at the time this truly seemed like the coolest magic trick to all of us kids riding the bus to school and scaring each other into fits of giggles. 

I feel like this piece is practically MADE for our current assignment where we have 5 speakers set up in a circle to create a surround sound feeling. So I will definitely be heavily referencing this piece and it’s ideas in my own future work.