I thought I’d keep an update on my thoughts on my audio paper. Since the initial few ideas that I had on writing my audio paper. Either on escapism from reflecting my mental health blogs on my first-year website. To hip hop and how the culture uses rapping and freestyling as escapism from their existence. Escapism in sound art and the thoughts around using sound and art to escape negative thoughts and a sad reality.
I wanted to write an audio paper script that challenged my ideas instead of rehashing information I’ve gained over the years. To dig into something relevant towards the twenty-first century and with current social-political messages about current sound art practice. I thought about using sound and nature as escapism and took out a book from the library on escapism which lead me to think about nature. The book speaks on graphical escapism from original nature to cities and now cities to nature to feel safe.
This thought process lead me down to the path of acoustic ecology. how we react to our environment. How has that changed? How do modern cityscapes make us feel in terms of our wellbeing? Is our brain wired to experience such loud noise polluting sounds daily? These were questions and ideas I had towards my paper and something I wanted to research more but was unsure about.
I decided to pursue the idea of noise pollution our mental health reaction and how sound artists can play a role in sound designing cities. What are the effects of noise pollution? examples of sound designing cities.
I’m in the process of gathering information that will lead to the initial draft by the end of this week. Record the first rough recording next week and begin to whittle down the roughness and make it concise.
In regards to the tutorial, it helped me a lot to gage a plan on the structure which I need to also write before doing the script. The loose amount of time I want to speak on each subject and possibly convert it to words. The loose structure currently is to speak on noise pollution and how it affects our wellbeing. The ways we can combat this. And my thoughts and speculation on what role a sound artist can play in fixing the issues towards cities.