My final video is an abstract piece depicting the feeling of melancholia, and the sounds receiving at the same time. All my sound records are about water, facet, bath, water bottle, etc. The pictures and the short video are taken in my dorm, creating a sense of old and lonely and sad. Ideally, I would want my piece to be placed in a museum “room” like this sketch below, a room full of tv screens.
After our sound piece assignment of depicting a place, I learnt the basic tools and method of making an sound piece, so this time I used more sketching of my record to create the abstractness. Not layering too much but making sure each sound is edited as melancholia as possible, I connected them in a order of degree, from the least to the most and the least. With the relatable pictures and short video, bathroom and light, I like the general feeling of my piece. On the other side, I agree that it will be better if I include more picture and longer audio.
Relating to time, I want my artwork to describe the timeless feeling of when a person is in the melancholia phase, he or she could hear sound at the same time and from different side. It is interesting when I recall my own experience, I enjoyed the weird sounds I heard even I am not sure if they were actually happening or I created them myself.
