works inspired by 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style

If this song puts you to sleep that means it's working

Lyrics:

I'm just chilling
I ain't messing with whatchu dealing
Catch these feelings
This s#!y gon' take you to the ceiling

I'm just vibing
Take a break from all that typing
You should go out biking
Find more things that's to your liking

It's ok to feel out of alignment
Just don't be a tyrant
I get my enjoyment
from making my own assignments

It's a process...
Look for ways to worry less
Get things off your chest

e m b r a c e  t h e  m e s s

v y b e

This was a final project for my sound design course... six separate renditions of the same minute's worth of dialogue. 

My project was inspired by my dear friend Matt Madden's 2005 comic "99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises In Style" and before that Raymond Queneau's 1947 book "Exercices de Style". Check them out!!!

The dialogue is a mash-up of multiple, random eavesdropped conversation fragments overheard while making my way around NYC. So no... it is NOT necessarily a linear narrative!!! (Disclaimer: I am still editing several sections, so this is a work-in-progress)

Thanks to everyone for all the help!!!!!

So you can follow the bouncing ball:

- Oh. You.
- Yeah.
- I’ll take it that you’re not real hot on this.
- It’s just sand and a coral seahorse sticker.
- I was like “I’ve got nothing to lose, so…”
- It’s too loud. It’s too colorful.
- But it means so much to me.
- Wait, did you see that?
- See what?
- Oh my god, oh my god. I can prove it. It's really happening.
- You’re lying, right?
- You know, can you please just be quiet?
- Why can't I....why. Why? Why can't I bring it up?
- Because you would lose that argument.
- Apparently, I cannot share my opinion without being looked down upon.
- I just pull the trigger when they tell me to.
- I’m outta here.
- Well, this isn’t about you. I make the toys man! 

Exercises in Style (as a radio drama)

My track submission for disquiet #14.

More on Matt Madden and his book 99 Ways to Tell a Story at:

http://mattmadden.com/
http://exercisesinstyle.com/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

"Timelapse" - [disquiet0014-oumupo]

My interpretation of Matt's work is one of the juxtoposition of the sense of time being both escaped and in escapement. 

By not using my own field recordings, I feel like a bit of a cheat with this week's Junto. Using Freesound.org was the only way I was going to be able to participate.
My trusty ZoomH4n was not to hand :(

More on Matt Madden and his book 99 Ways to Tell a Story at:

http://mattmadden.com/
http://exercisesinstyle.com/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

Samples used...

http://www.freesound.org/people/WIM/sounds/18037/
http://www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/32937/
http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/30608/
http://www.freesound.org/people/andriala/sounds/16651/
http://www.freesound.org/people/fabe/sounds/3128/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/75372/
http://www.freesound.org/people/avventura2046/sounds/147387/
http://www.freesound.org/people/alp1254/sounds/52622/

Thanks to the providers of the above recordings and snippets.


escapement-disquiet0014-oumupo

My first contribution to the Disquiet project, all done in one single day (busy Bank Holiday weekend).

Maybe a bit too repetetive. Should have given myself more time, but there we go.

Lazy Day (disquiet0014-oumupo)

This is something I created for the latest Disquiet Junto project. The assignment involves creating a sonic narrative for a comic created by Matt Madden. We had a lot of freedom to do whatever we wanted – straight narrative or abstract rendition.
 
The piece 1:15 am is constructed of a coil recording of my laptop, drones and tones, and a field recording of my refridgerator at the end. I also used the mac speech feature to record the dialog, but ended up granulating and delaying the sound, which you will hear midway through. My goal was to express the strange feeling of 1:15 am, especially when you’ve lost track of time.
 
More on Matt Madden and his book 99 Ways to Tell a Story at:
http://mattmadden.com
http://exercisesinstyle.com
 
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

1:15 am [disquiet0014-oumupo]

What is there left to do?
Can't we do something new?
I found my old guitar,
I'll tune it up and play for you.

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Exercises in Style (as a radio drama)

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