#2 Synesthesia & Cymatics

Synesthesia is kind of like a cognitive response the brain delivers; an example of that experiencing a flashback of a memory through contact with anything, whether it's a song for a smell etc. That scent or sound delivers a signal to the brain, and as experienced firsthand, somehow triggers a response that reminds the subject (or myself) of an event that happened or an object, place, movie, and many other things. There are probably a multitude of ways to relate synesthesia to film, and more importantly through minuscule fragments that can determine an emotion; this is done by exhibiting a certain portion of a film that reminds the viewer of anything other than the movie itself. But it isn't defined only by the recurrence of a memory, but by several other ways like a set of patterned numbers; this is more of a minor representation of synesthesia seeing that it isn't a priority of need for myself, only that it happens when I'm either aligning or calculating an equation that has a given amount of numbers. Cymatics as a whole involves the idea of "painting with sound", which is concretely impossible, but as an abstraction through sound within film can be done (excluding the vibration of an object or substance to create sound). Sounds can also be picked up and emitted by animals, and these patterns can be seen through machines that cymatically recreate these noises by displaying exactly how looks. Contradicting is the second sentence only because the former was a typical outlook on what the topic means to several who determine this particular topic that way only. A way that can relate to what I've done recently is absolutely nothing as it hasn't been performed at all (I think) for any of the assignments so far. Quite possibly will it be needed for assignment two; this will involve the creation of a soundtrack from scratch that does not duplicate anything that was ever prerecorded.

Media Fasting Vlog

Well I can honestly say that was quite an experience. One that I will never partake in ever again.

#1 Hand-painting response

If I could compare it to anything that's relative with the source material (that being the abstraction of images), a director known as Brakhage took this concept, and became one of the pioneers of this particular "experimental" form of filmmaking. The important trait about this short film whilst comparing it to this director's work is the fact that the film lacked in being annoying. It instead attracted my attention to the relation of images to the music that was playing in the background; the piece that was embedded to the strip was appeasing. More importantly, the film's images tended to "dance" with the sound. It was very rhythmic, balanced, and it maintained a similar pattern throughout the entire screening. The abstraction within the images were probably gibberish, but there could have been some meaning behind the rhythm every set of images created; this is why I would've wanted to know how and exactly why this film was made (disregarding the purpose for which that it art). Was it to demonstrate the use of it's supportive mechanism? Maybe it was to show how influential the mind can be on sporadic creativity. Nevertheless, this "hand-painting" (compared to more recent films of it's kind I viewed on YouTube) is nothing more than primitive and classical. It has this spark of liveliness that makes it unique and sophisticated, not only because of the usage of film scratches and dents, or even sanding, but also the film's intuitiveness that brings the both the moving images and the music to life.