Process Piece

Process Piece of Garret Helgesen and Cameron Babcock


Trip to Sundance Audio

Artist Statement:

     As we discussed ideas for the Process Piece, we thought: What process should we record using audio? What are we doing this weekend? I am going to Sundance. So am I. Well, lets record us making the trip to Sundance. We decided to record the trip starting with us walking to the car all the way to us leaving Sundance. The process was eye opening and the product captures the ambient sounds at the Sundance Festival.

      Regarding the process, there were many interesting things that I never have paid attention to in traveling to a destination like Sundance. Traveling by car accompanies many sounds like the car door sound opening, the engine rolling, the radio playing, and the sounds from friends enjoying the time. By pushing record on the mic, my awareness was heightened specifically to all of the footsteps around us and sounds of a car full of friends.
  
      How we traveled to Sundance was by car, which gave interesting sounds leading up to the festival. It would have been one long audio documentary if we had walked there. Recording audio at Sundance was eye opening because of all of the sounds that one can hear at the festival. Sounds at the festival can be people talking about films with one another, cars driving by, whistles blowing from the cross guards, footsteps on the pavement outside, and music playing from live performances from musicians. Now, the recording might not capture all of these sounds but at least the footsteps were recorded. 

     Connecting to the homework this week, the process piece was very similar to “The Smokehouse” video.  The sound in this video details familiar sounds and could provide a great visual to the audience even without the accompanying video. Though the audio recorded for this video included music and narration, the diegetic sounds were still able to describe a good amount about the story and added to the process of constructing the smokehouse. This connected well with our audio recording of the process of driving a car. In our piece we chose to do a process that had distinct and familiar sounds that would be clear for others to understand. Like the chopping of wood, sounds of a car door closing are familiar to most people and helped to capture starting moments of both of these processes.

     Jeremy, the Sound Effects Hunter, has a variety of audio recordings of sound effects and processes. His work has been uploaded on his website where viewers can hear these sounds for free. What is respectable is that Jeremy records all of his sounds himself. For the process of his father sleeping, he recorded his dad snoring breathing in his sleep. These different sound processes help me reflect of our process piece because both have recordings where surprises happen. For his father sleeping, it was the snoring. For us, it was how interesting the combination of sounds can be from just walking outside at a festival.


Garrett Helgesen & Cameron Babcock

Link to the Sound Effects Hunter's website: http://www.sound-effects-hunter.com/



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