Experience Me is my mdcm3002 Sound Installation
After a series of setbacks I have finally finished it.
Setbacks being; Stoopid Sophie-son deciding to do 5 subjects, amounting to a out of control workload. Dead external Hard Drive taking my entire project with it :( Dvd drives not burning any of my dvd’s specially printed for the project, but burning ones not printed. Printers being closed so that I can’t get the unprinted dvd’s printed. Working the entire day so I can’t get the dvd’s printed. Aka, Sophie-son has been farking screwed from the get go, she so lucky, finished and lucky.
So what the idea of my project was not to change the world, I know I can’t so I’m not going to try. I wanted to make a project where the user could sit down and take a peek inside my brain, the clutter and all. I found it rather difficult recording a lot of this stuff because whilst I may seem random and a bit of a wack, I am rather self-concious. Voicing a lot of these things was difficult- especially because I didn’t want it to sound scripted or rehearsed, or like I was trying to say something that it so deep and meaningful. The balance was hard… and I really hope I have achieved it and I don’t sound like a giant wank.
The idea of the project is to place a single lounge in an empty space, surround it with a surround sound dvd player, no need for the screen, just the sound, and play the surround scape. As it is only a short glimpse- 1minute, 32sec- the listener can choose to listen to the scape again or take control of the dvd remote and play around with the pace of the project pausing, rewinding, fast forwarding and honing into parts of the scape they may have missed the first time around.
There is no why to this project, rather its an opportunity to look inside my mind and maybe get the audience member to question their experience, and other people’s experiences of the world. Its a bit of fun, its a space where you can genuinly see how crazy I am. Enjoy, if you dare!
So this is the final sleeve of Experience Me which holds the dvds which were printed and don’t burn. Fantastic.
The following is the teaser video of the project which I attached to the the Play Me dvd which introduced the project and outlined the instructions of the Use Me dvd. The Use Me dvd is designed to stage the production, all you need is the space, lounge, dvd surround set up and an audience.
<3 Pebble Power
