Connections with Time Arts

At first I didn't think that I had any connections of influences in time arts, but after thinking about it, I think that I sure do.

One of them is the band The Books. This is a band that I've been listening to for a while and I feel like they're really different from a lot of other bands that I like because of the way they make their music and what kinds of things they put in their music. They use a lot of computer generated sounds, along with a lot of acoustic instruments, but they also edit in other sounds not typically found in music like snip its from a phone message, or announcements on airplanes, background conversations and these sounds are sped up, slowed down, repeated or edited in some way to work themselves into the music. Sometimes there is a bizzare juxtapostion and layering between genres of music and conversations and time and speed that there is something a little off about their songs, but these elements also work their way into one another and the "offness" is what's cool.

Another influence to time arts is Janet Cardiff's audio tours. A person could go to her gallery, get a headset and will be provided with a tour of the neighborhood narrated by Janet Cardiff. it's interesting because there is already ambient noise in the recording, so even though it may be winter, there are birds chirping. she combines things that actually exist in the neighborhood, along with made up things such as "You'll go down the stairs and see the green door and Whoa! Watch out for that bike!" and it's interesting because you'll see the green door, but where's the bike? She plays with ideas of time and space and virtual reality versus real reality, and thats pretty sweet.

Another influence is doing an animation in foundations. It involved drawing an initial scene, photographing it and then building on the same image by altering it slightly so the remnants of the previous images still exist in a ghostly way. I only ended up using one piece of paper. I then imported the images and set them to music.