audio paper: briefing & influence

Nichol’s documentary modes:

Poetic (soviet montage theory)

Expository (film, news, TV)

Participatory (interaction, as oppose to observation, unobtrusively)

Observational (D.A Pennhaker)

Reflexive (meta) (considering quality) (embracing process)

Performative (engages the story-teller to the story, but constructs subjective truths)

Jane + Louise & the toxic camera (what is it to be surveying?)

Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chenobryl, Joker)

-Ethnographic Film (non fiction, historically dealing with non-western ideology/civilisations) & Ethnographic interviews/writing (never fully objective, never fully neutral)

-Ethics and Honour (consider everything)

-“instead of binary thought, multiply levels of possibility

-“doesn’t argue a position, in as much as it presents an observation for consideration”, explores the way people answer questions

-frame of reference (inherent bias), a paradox

-performative aesthetics+technologies (mediation)

-idiosyncratic

-situated/partial

-renders affects+sensations

-diverse voices

-protagonists, narrative tendencies (material)

-consistent part of larger ecologies

Spatialisation

Introduction

an introduction to ‘the space’, and how we as sound artists can use, and exist within it.

how would one arrange their sound objects within a space- positioning.

PAN LAW (weaker and stronger points)

a familiarisation/introduction to quadrophonics/ambisonics, 4.0 (surround sound), Sennheiser and the Zoom H3 and its capture of reflective sound.