PHOTOGRAPHY

Project Four
Soundscape

For this project B, we were asked to look at a photograph and add a sound to it. For example something from your childhood or an photography will often evoke a memory. Also some artists use sound to compliment their artwork at times. Sound and vision are most important in how we see and interact with the world. It's difficult to re create a sound from a memory so its important to sometimes record these things. So instead of just simply recording a video, I am going to choose an photograph and re create it as a Soundscape.

JANET CARDIFF

Artist Bio:-

Janet Cardiff is a Canadian installation artist. She works in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller. Janet first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995. Cardiff's installations and walking pieces are often mixed media and audio-based. She has been included in exhibitions such as: Nine Artists in the Nineties,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern Opening Exhibition as well as a project commissioned by Artangel in London. This project 'The Missing Voice (Case Study B' was commissioned in 1999 and continues to run. It is an audio tour that leaves from the Whitechapel Library, next to the Whitechapel tube stop and snakes its way through London's East End, weaving fictional narrative with descriptions about the actual landscape.

Forest (For a Thousand years..) 2012
CARDIFF & MILLER

Materials: Audio Installation

Duration: 28 Minute Audio Loop

A remarkable thing about Janet Cardiff ans George Bures Miller's utterly captivating sound installation is how it blurs distinctions between site ans art. You enter a clearing in the forest, sit down on a wooden stump, and simply listen. Cardiff and Bures Miller's work incorporates the actual forest into an audio composition emitted from more than thirty speakers. Sometimes there is a near synchronicity of natural and meditates sounds, and its tough to discern what is live and what is recorded. 

MY WORK

Here is the image I have decided to use for the project. I work at an Tesco Extra, in New Oscott, Birmingham. It is one of the biggest ans busiest stores in the area. When going to work I hear various different sounds and voice from babies crying to married couples talking, tills beeping, as well as my fellow colleges. When at home or away from work I block out everything about it including the noises I hear. When bringing up a memory from work, I rarely remember the noises going on around me. I thought It would be interesting to record as I was going in and getting ready for work as I would like to compare the different areas of work as some parts are quieter than others. Also to show the busyness of the store itself only through sound.