Dual Channel Video Diptych

I used a collection of videos on my phone to create this diptych. I used videos of me driving, riding the bus, watching a crowd, and going to shows over this last summer. The piece is in three segments, alternating the colors between warm and cool. For the first segment, I combined the video of me driving through the neighborhood and changed the tone of it to a blue/green color. Then I overlayed it with the video of me riding the bus through campus to get the dots. For the next segment I used a video of a crowd I recorded at school and made the colors more red/yellow. I also put a video of a person I recorded at a DJ set I went to, using the two different outfits he wore on either panel. For the final segment, I took a video of the opening of a concert I attended. I didn't change the coloring, I only enhanced it because the lighting was already a dark blue. For the video overlaying it, I had a video of a slideshow displaying past events held at a venue. And finally for the audio, I used my mixed sound piece.

Mixed sound piece

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1zXDKkw1w2q

For this piece, I recorded myself reading a paragraph from a Wikipedia article about driving and lowered the pitch. I also spliced the beginning of the song and slowed it down to about 2 percent for the background, and then I imported a photo through Audacity and used the raw data as well. My purpose for the piece was to make it sound eerie and a bit slow in the sense that it would sound like it was dragging on even though the piece was only a minute long.

Voice recording

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0XVUyK2okmU

This is merely a test recording of my voice.

Musical Instrument

For my musical instrument, I used a mixing bowl and five rubber bands to make a sort of guitar. While it looks simple, I spent a bit of time figuring out the sounds it would make by using different sized rubber bands and moving them around on the bowl. The shape and size of the bowl also helped determine where I was able to move the rubber bands and the sound.

Audio Loop

For my audio loop, I decided to record sounds that I hear around campus- voices in the hallway, typing on a keyboard, running faucets, and footsteps. Being a full time student I am at campus most of the time and these are common sounds for me.