Forum – Week 6 – Semester 2, 2008: “Emo Presentations”
There was a relatively diverse palette of sonic emotional proposals presented today. I do wish I’d avoided MIDI and maybe kept things a little less complicated. While the approaches from all involved differed in some respects, there were recurring themes that suggest we are perhaps conditioned to perceive and make analogous sonic connections by our environment and culture.
I think I found Freddie’s the most entertaining. The sound of a child’s cries on tape often implies a gargoyle-esque quality. Stephen Tanato’s general MIDI clichés were a little, well, clichéd. I think the positive emotions were easier to convey in a specific sense – Major chords for happy, power chords for heroic, water and bird noises for tranquillity etc. The difference between anger and disgust is a difficult one. There were a couple of well-crafted distinctions today though, with John Delany’s representation of disgust the standout for me. It seems there is also an art to determining a sonic representation for both sorrow and compassion that is unambiguous.
Reference:
Whittington, Stephen. “Forum – Week 6 – Semester 2, 2008: Emo Presentations.” Workshop presented at EMU space, level 5, Schultz building, University of Adelaide, 4th of September, 2008.
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posted by David J Dowling @ 4:39 PM
2 Comments:
As mentioned earlier, I found your sound of the "bubbling water/singing birds/pentatonic scale" all-in-one highly amusing (but effective of course) it's like you just had to nail that point home :-)
Come to think of it, you should make it your Windows startup sound.
Everyone should make it their Windows startup sound - then we'd have no war...
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