SOUND AND TIME
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During the sound and time module I started working on surveillance. Mainly with my own webcam. Basically the interest started because I wanted to see how I would react to being 'on camera' the whole time. This was interesting because at one point I'm falling asleep in front of the camera, the next I'm changing my clothes and then quickly realising im in front of the camera I'm covering myself. These are all small interesting little moments. But when seeing all this footage together It became clear to me it was more about the fragmentality of the work. The fragments of my life, combining it with random audio files that have nothing to do with the footage your viewing it creates a contorted image of me as a person.
I wanted to create a website on which you could see this footage without really seeing it. For example, my head would be blurred, or when I'm in the image the image would become black all of a sudden. Or you could only see my eyes, or just my nose. Working on this website I quickly realised I again, had landed myself in a project that would require more time and research, especially in the command line and python code, if I wanted to do this right. Which is what I want, and I'm building upon this idea right now within my self directed research.
What of course was also still interesting to me, coming from the image and code module, was the wifi signal visibility. This time around I worked with just the sound of the application I had used. I walked the same route within my house with the sound signals, and when walking again I would replay the before recorded sound on top of the new sound, to hear the differences within the signals. This created a very distorted and painful version to listen to, and wasn't really anything I could build from. I just have to start working on my own signal identifier to create a new project based upon this.
Next to these bigger projects I did a lot of small experiments with sound distortion and video. I took a short clip that looks like it was a mistakingly taped moment, from an old home video when I was small. In this clip I am calling my sister but the screen is very dark and moves around a lot which creates an eery atmosphere. I replayed it many times, whilst playing the recorded moment from before as an experiment. I have no desire to continue with this, but it was a good exercise.
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