full josh

josh got all sassy for his interview.





cassettes. new frontiers of time in music. controls over how art ages analogous to controls over how art is used? compose with chemicals, everyday the tape sounds different. oblique strategy: the tape is now the music.

when he wasn't verbally assaulting my poor questions he did a decent jam.

josh

interviewed josh, will post more tomorrow.

emailed kate fitzpatrick about education. emailed steve rush about meeting in human.

big day

started shooting today, finally. interviewed kelly moran in the martha cook lounge. i'm a little disappointed in the quality of the video, some setting i used gave it a lot of, um, noise. the light wasn't too difficult, maybe a touch low. i tapped the button labeled "shutter speed +" once and everything seemed fine, but it's so hard to discern the noise level on such a small lcd. i am surprised at the quality of the audio because it was a very noisy room, right by a main door, two low-flying planes, traffic noise... none of it really picked up, which is both lucky and good i suppose. i wonder how many times i can use the word "noise" on this blog. the interview itself went pretty well, it's a good thing i'm starting with people with whom i'm already comfortable.

this is a relevant moment, the question is: why the widespread hesitation to embrace modern music?



something about the compression or upload fucked with the aspect ratio. learn to get quicktime to deal with 16/9.

for whatever reason the camera was not recording during her philip glass rendition. oops. also, there's some kind of sync issues where it's right at the beginning but by the end of a given clip he audio and video aren't quite together. i can't think of why this might happen but we're talking about a frame or two over the course of 20+ minutes of footage.

checklist for next shoot:
arrive early.
triple check the noisyness level.
make jokes, get people more comfortable early.

special thanks.
annie eriksson
the martha cook house
lindsay farris

fucked up and made better

missed one of the 5 pat490 classes we have today. this was the one where we heard everybody's proposals too. emailed it to mary.
got registered for the hd class on saturday. plan to begin filming sunday.

made a mix cd for ben at his request. i will post the final version later. his involvement is fun because he hates noise. i think it's part of being a literary mind, he needs some kind of coherence or narrative. flow. something. anyway, he requested a mix so he could be very specific about his distaste and i think i made a pretty good one. it covers a number of different aspects of what we broadly call noise: academic, minimal, harsh, bands, laptops, contemplative, pretty, circuit bending, classic. i really like it.

made a label in my gmail called noisedoc so all relevant communications can be easily accessed.

emailed: kelly, morgan, jash.

to do: call dave's office about grants (during regular business hrs).
find somebody willing to film me putting the drawdio together.
get in touch with ian and isaac.

began the thesis proposal, will finish and hand in tomorrow. watched this video: http://www.ubu.com/film/her_noise.html. i remember ronen going on a year or two ago about the lack of women in noise. he doesn't just want to go to a show, he wants to fall in love. watching vicky open for paper rad at mocad, wondering why she was dressed in workout clothes, realizing she does acrobatics to make noise.

physical engagement with instruments. this is a common complaint of noise, that noise musicians are not physically engaged with their instruments in the same meaningful way as their classical or contemporary counterparts. it's also one of its greatest assets, the ability to play knobs and buttons, immediacy, accessibility. violently throwing yourself around a basement full of friends while your microphone screams moneymurder and you're too into it to remember it happened.



going to pick up the hd form right now. sign up for the certification tomorrow. drawdio came on saturday, film it being put together.

new things to remember:
talk to kelly about how she got to study with steve.
talk to jash and morgan and bennett about cassette tapes. talk to morgan about ritualistic practices, i.e. his pat 452 final.

created a digital space to keep myself organized throughout this process.

emailed kate fitzpatrick, asking if she has the time or energy to talk to me, either on camera or not. i'm using that as a basis for my approach to the classroom activities: how to get people focused, how to talk to young children.

to do:

list of interviewees

call anthony, hang out at clon lara

thesis proposal form

apply for graduation