Entry Three: Week III.

so my group has chosen to tackle the "acoustic movie project," which is totally sweet. we talked out our idea this morning after class and i think we are all really pumped. our initial aim is to juxtapose urban life with rural life and what better way to do it than through sound. originally, we talked about construction noises (a.k.a. the racket that begins at 8am outside of our apartments every morning) as a topic to explore. but the idea of working only with construction sites seemed rather limiting. i am very interested in gargaeband, the apple music studio program, and suggested compiling a song or melody out of the noises we capture. ultimately we decided that might be too much pressure on my part, as composer, and wouldn't exactly fulfill the purpose of "creating place." this weekend, we are visiting the countryside (koldehof) and it seems extremely appropriate to capture sounds out there, which then gave way to our idea of contrasting city sounds and country sounds. as of now, we are approaching the urban atmosphere as chaotic, jarring, annoying, obtrusive and looking at the rural as slow, peaceful, a little dumb and almost comical. i wonder, though, if there are different ways of approaching this idea of rural and urban that are not so literal.

we also walked around kreuzberg capturing sounds with the boom mic in order to practice for our weekend excursion. how fun!

update: we actually found out the hard way that our boom mic requires a small battery for amplification. in the end, we capture no sounds until we got to koldenhof. but no sweat, we got really great rural footage.