NMD 304 Lecture 6 Vox Humana Critique

Please post your comments, reflections and opinions of each others work.

Assignment 4: Sound Poem / Vox Humana the Wordless Voice

The goal in this project is to see if an array of seemingly unintentional, unrelated sounds can be organized using the poetic structure that we have been employing, to evoke or convey meaning. For this project you are to “write” a poem with sound. Working only with ambient or “found” sound you will assemble the sound clips into a meaningful poetic structure. The final objective is to evoke image and to express an idea built conceptually from these ambient sounds alone.

NMD 304 Lecture 5 Mapping: Narratives in Space and Time

Where is narrative? We have had to shift our understanding of the Aristotelean concept of Poetics (one where a work has a definite beginning middle and end with subsequent arches and movements of action towards a main arc with a build up and release in the end) relative to the current epoch where artists have mediums that by their temporal, net-based, interactive or other qualities construct narratives in outer-contextual forms that deny or break the traditional narrative structure, like geographic, spatial, time-based and visual mapping.

If the point once fixed to line and plane in perspective is now free to float across vectors in time and space can we locate the axis or center of any narrative, can we even begin to comprehend where story begins and where it ends and is this necessary? How does the shift in linear story-telling change the experience of the "vanishing" point of a story? I our own lives what is the "point" is there an arc? Post you blog reactions to todays lecture here.. and try to come to the next one even on Thursday...

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Critique of A 4 Poetics of Time
Please discuss each other's work (choose one or more to talk about in context of the class). In doing so please do not simply say "I like..." or "I don't like..." try to explain what you are thinking in full detail about someone's work. In other words why do like or dislike something? Also remember regardless of if you do or do not like it you should still talk about it in relation to the given assignment, is the work you are talking about an excellent example; was it terrible; or perhaps it did not really do what was asked but was highly successful in an other way. Also please discuss the assignment in general what did you learn from it; was hard easy,why; Did it relate to the last assignment if so how, etc...

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Yesterday we pushed the technology we are using to conduct this experimental type of course to its limits. It was not without it flaws and drawbacks but aside from those it presented a wonderful chance to exchange ideas between individuals from across the globe.

In real-time, students and faculty from Nanyang Technical University's Art Design and Media Program (NTU ADM) shared in a discussion on ideas related to this class and your studies at the University of Maine.

The discussion was wide and free ranging framed at first by a simple question around narrative. A question that students and faculty at both NTU ADM and UMaine address to one degree or another in their work. The talk was not easy due to the technology but it was worth the effort. This particular iPod Cast will have some sound problems, as again, we pushed the technology to its limits. But what is preserved here is worth hearing. Please post your response.