Thursday, November 10, 2011

Sharon Hayes Spoken Words DJ Nov 10

 Today the Sharon Hayes exhibit opened today at the Art Institute. She was a spoken words DJ and here is a bit of her performance.



Her performance was very interesting. At Teen Lab , we discussed that the lack of visuals made people focus on the audio. She mixed presidential speeches, interviews and news-clips from the 1960s. It was a turbulent time in American history, I heard JFK's fimilar voice in speeches, several news anchors on the Vietnam War and a really devastated voice announcing that Martin Luther King passed away from a gunshot wound in the neck.


A piece of audio I really noted was when she mixed news of an airplane crash caused by a fog/miscommunication, after audio news of Cuba and the Bay of Pigs.


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Yesterday we learned to use Garage Band and record sounds using cameras. I was in the create sounds group using pencils, paper, hands, whatever we could find. The other groups were ambient sounds and vocal sounds. We will use these non-copyrighted sounds for our digital collages.

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