The session this week was about Structialism and Post Structuralist ways of thinking, and way those ideas can be adapted to research practices. I very much enjoyed the session, the post structuralist ideas of being inquisitive about everything in life, especially things that are told to be “true”, and working out their inner workings and goals beyond the surface level. Now that idea seems kind of obvious, so it’s kind of bizarre to see that the idea as a movement is so young, being founded in the 60s, I’m certain there are precursors obviously but still quite strange.
Anyway, revising my draft over and over again and finally sitting down to record I noticed some glaring issues;
1. I stutter a lot when reading aloud. I wasn’t really aware of this until now and I’m finding it really irritating when recording, it’s made the whole process really difficult and I haven’t been able to record everything at the time of writing this because I was going until the University closed.
2. Because I was stuttering and stumbling over my words so much, I didn’t gauge how long my writing actually is until assembling what I had later, finding that even in its unfinished state it was around 15 minutes.
3. I can’t be on campus next week due to an effort to save as much money as possible, but because of the accommodation I’m in being quite useless my toilet does not stop flushing, the only soundproofing method otherwise would be to record in the wardrobe but that still has the inevetability of capturing that sound.
So what needs to be done is a revision on the writing in order to get across my points in a more concise manner to fit the time frame limitation set, which is kind of irritating at this late stage to do again but whatever. My idea at the moment is to create a section at the end after explaining the effects of singular loops, that has a lot of overdubbing, but it might be confusing if not executed well I’m not sure.
Now after coming back to the blog after recording in my wardrobe, I’m quite happy with how it’s gone to be fair, I taped the microphone to the top of the wardrobe so I couldn’t bump it and talked away from it assuming it would be loud enough anyway, the results were quite good I feel. I rewrote most of the work to be more brief and did the overdubbing part using a contact mic and a looper, the resulting sound I quite enjoyed because of how quickly my speaking became incomprehensible, I kept it like that because I found it exciting and interesting, like a bit of catharsis after trying to cram as much information as possible. I had to abandon some talking points for brevity sadly, that being the research I did on earworms, on repetition as well as most of my Celer section to be honest, but rules are rules, I have to adhere.