Final Project

At first I thought about doing a piece along the lines of a drawing or a video, but decided against it. I can do those any time. I decided to take advantage of having such an audience. I'm intrigued by projects that mess with the audience, such as that one Fluxus project I mentioned in an earlier post. This kind of stuff tends to stay in the audience's mind because they were essential to it. I don't want to give any details yet about the project - not because I think its so super special but because that will make it less fun and I don't have it all worked out myself yet, just a pretty general idea of what to do. For my Sound Machine project I used cell phones on speaker to echo the audience, and I thought that it had an interesting effect, so I've decided that my final project would be a good opportunity to take that concept further. Each project so far I've tried to do something different, but now is my chance to build off of stuff I tried before and hopefully improve it. By increasing the level of phone echoing, I can up the dissonance, which, in theory at least, will create an interesting soundscape full of conflicting sounds. Maybe Russolo would like it, as I am using interesting sounds besides violins and pianos as a way to express something (although I'm still trying to figure out what I'm expressing). I also plan on incorporating elements of chance, a la John Cage, because one fault my projects have had so far has been being too pre-planned. My thinking style has been product over process. But by using more chance, it can be a simultaneous learning experience between the audience and me.