angela, songs, and new sounds

I think the piece I finished for tuesday turned out ok. I definitely liked playing around with audacity and making a mess and thinking it was cool and pomo and weirdo and all that, but I think that for my next piece I want to have a better conception of my desired outcome when I begin so that I can tell at the end if I've reached my purpose. So.

One other thing I liked about my first draft audio project was that I did incorporate a little conceptual meat. For instance: my focus on the idea of what it means to be in prison in america (and the idea of [prison] escape, at the very end) and a re-interpretation of the words in some of the songs to further this concept. I had fun twisting the end of the funk song from talking about kicking out the commies to talking about breaking out of jail. And I liked how when I slowed down the word prison and/or changed the tone, it sounded kind of like a jail cell slamming shut.

I think for my next piece I'd like to continue with the concept of prison/the prison system, but go back to my original idea of having a consistent beat in the background. In some ways, this seems to me like I'm just trying to emulate a "real dj" which would be a lame reason to do something that I think will be kind of difficult, but on the other hand its an appropriation of a known medium to a new prupose. Although, it's probably not that new of a purpose since remixed songs with a consistent beat have, I'm sure, been used to talk about political people and their ideas many times before.

I also want to incorporate some speeches, maybe speeches by angela davis herself, or speeches about her, or even just audio clips about the prison system. I'm interested in this just cause I had fun working with words and phrases for the first draft, and I think it would be cool to splice and pull out words to emphasize and then maybe even create my background beats from adjusting the speeds of the words themselves.