Intermedia – Page 5 – at the University of Vermont

Erin Brooks

Imagine the earth were flat

Speak a thought into four jars and seal the lids

Place each jar at each point on a compass

Which way will the Earth tip?

April 13, 2020

Going into the project, I appreciated the absolute randomness of the sample selection process. It was exciting to create something out of such a limited focus. That being said, I wasn’t very excited about my samples, because I got two of my own. But the others that I picked were very interesting. I started out trying to make something that uses repetition as a sort of rhythm, whether or not each track found the same beat. I used a lot of effects, changed pitch and speed, and reversed sections of samples to create a slow motion, dizzy, out of reality piece. I tried to combine busy sounds with intermittent silence to try and recreate the sensation of vision unfocusing and refocusing in a mellow, catatonic way. I ended up liking the way the effects worked differently in different places, and how the modified sounds maintained the feeling of time passing regardless of whether they were played forward or reversed.

April 11, 2020April 12, 2020

Noise

By evhale

Play a note on the piano… or record a sound

Every hour. Play them all together at the end of the day.

In sequence or as a cacophony

April 8, 2020

SOCIAL DISTANCING PIECE

By vpriestl

By Vivian Priestley

Go to your front door. Open it Wide. Imagine a thousand people standing outside Now listen to them shuffle Record the sound, and play it for a friend. Shuffle together.

Spring 2020