Project 1 – Schizophonia

Now that I am done working on the project , here is a Summary Post

Development

Project definition

You are to consider the possible relationships between the aural phenomena associated with all things in particular contexts that you devise.

CAEL2041 project 1. ‘Schizophonia’

I talk about this more in this post.

Project statement

My concept is to relay absurdism through a split between “reality” of the world around me and my Reality. I chose multiple  recordings of Bach’s Cello Suite. As soothing music plays, I show different footage of the events that happened in the past three years; through appropriation and recontextualisation. I am not stating that I had anything to do with Bach’s piece. Philip Brophy is one of the artists that worked in this. I also used concepts that resonate with Dadaism.

The process used is GarageBand and iMovie. I took the liberty of taking a MIDI record and restructuring them to make a rather 2020 feel to it.

For my final step, I took my project online, assessing the comments given. (Youutube, Facebook , WhatsApp and Instagram)  

Dadaism and absurdity

Another artist that inspired me in the way he relates absurdity is Marcel Duchamp.

I posted about Dadaism here.

Implementation

Music

Choice of music

I needed to choose one piece with different recordings. Bach Cello suite.

In This post, I laid down the factors that made me choose it:

• Be soothing to me
• Be famous enough to have online support from the open source community
• Have a wealth of usable musical information

Further edits and repetitiveness effect

I Edited a different MIDI recording in Garage band. I took the first 4 bars and looped them over and over again. This would amplify the effect I am looking for. This is a post going over this process.

This is my first tinkering with the Midi file

With further adjustments that were shown here, I came to my final audio.

these adjustments had three main conditions:

• Make it Periodic for absurdism
• Let go up and down and alternate between sounds
• Maybe add a drummer?

This left me with the final version of the audio.

Movie

Script

I’m done with the music at that point. I need to start on the movie. I jotted down a broad script:

• Start off with concert footage
• plug in a car crash sound effect
• Start playing my edited MIDI recording
• Put parts of the unfortunate events

Getting footage

I’d categorised my footage into buckets that divide the footage into years. I neatly organised them into folders to make the work easier.

Putting things together

In iMovie, I reorganised the footage. made it work with the audio.

I also made one longer version for Youtube and another, shorter one for Instagram.

Here I write about this

Audience

So far, we have looked at the “particular contexts that you devise”.

Let’s see where I goes with contexts I don’t devise.

In the telecom industry a message has three components :

• The sender: this is the person or device that is sending the message
• The medium: this is the means for transmitting the message. This is where the most technical part. i.e. cables for a landline phones, sound and air for musicians, Video for movie makers…
• The receiver: This is the person that receives the message

Basically I am looking at how my message goes through with different mediums.

First go

I had a quick run on Instagram. Without thinking a lot about the message.

Here is a post about it

I also sent it to some friends casually on WhatsApp

Here is a post about it

A better message

Now that I have a first impression of what the comments look like, I want to see if I can have some sort of “control” over the perception given that I have little control over the context.

First I worked on a message to send.

Here is a post about it.

And sent it to 97 contacts.

These are some of their responses