Audiodiary 1

Audiodiaryfinal

Audioportrait bus driver

Onthebus

I got this idea while talking to my parents and grandparents about their experiences living in America during the Cold War. I found it really interesting how the foreign threat became sort of an undercurrent in their daily life, exerting a subtle influence on pop culture and general society. I wanted to portray this influence by using samples from important archival media of this time played under music and other various sounds, to show how these ideas became a metaphorical undercurrent in our history, and a literal one in my audio piece. Practically every sound that I used is a reference to some aspect of 1950s American culture.

Goodbye, Blue Monday

Thewinchesterwoods

This track is about the affect that the imminent threat of nuclear bombing had on the American psyche during the 1950s. I used sounds from multiple movies about the subject, such as Empire of the Sun, Dr.Strangelove, and Au Revoir Les Enfants, as well as 1950s instructional videos on what the bomb was and how to avoid it. I used sounds from war sirens, planes, rocket countdowns and Godzilla's screech as well, as I feel that Godzilla is an important cultural expression of nuclear dread. I also took clips from speeches by Oppenheimer and other important figures. I layered all of these sounds under music to express how these ideas and fears were buried under a mirage of media and artistic distraction.

Goodbye Blue Monday Portfolio version

For this series vox pop interviews, we asked people what had made them angry in the past day, and we compiled all of the answers for a study on anger. The responses range from small and trivial to deeper and more personal

Gina Gregg