A poem for TDC5185 Silence is: Watching the reflections of clouds dance over a calm loch Sniffing petrichor through an open window after rain Unsalted butter spread thickly on a toasted crumpet And clean cotton sheets on a summer night 267/365 Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
“Scotch Argus Butterfly” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I am reduced to silence Promising ideas dance at the edge of my mind Quietly vanishing when caught on paper Inky moths, stilled by a lepidopterist’s pin Dying, dissolving, leaving me bereft Exhausted by the effort of achieving nothing, I submit to this uneasy silence And so the dance begins again
There’s so much emphasis at the moment in active learning, often accompanied with the (implicit) belief that this needs to be a collaborative activity. I think both are important, and also enjoyable – but sometimes peace and solitude are just as productive, if not more. Today I have spent time in my kitchen away from social media – chopping fruit and veg for relish, stirring together chocolate and nuts for fudge, churning yogurt and vanilla for ice cream and then […]
“One way or another, the dream will come. Fight.” (*I recommend checking out my first post on this work before delving into this one~) Porpentine’s With Those We Love Alive is a dark, twisted, and fantastical Twine game that invites readers to become participants in the act of experiential inscription by asking readers to draw sigils on themselves as they work through the piece. These sigils are meant to represent experiences typically invisible or intangible or hidden like “new beginnings” or “pain […]
So, my laptop managed to make a miraculous recovery. *killjoys make some noise~* She’s a real trooper. Anyway, that means I finally got around to playing with sound. And, to being frustrated by it. That said, I didn’t really feel a strong pull towards any of the not-to-do-list prompts. I did really like reading one of my works aloud in class this past week, though. So, I decided to run with that and record myself–again–reading my story. Only, this time, with some added sound […]
What did you learn about audio space from the simple listening exercise? I didn’t really learn anything out of the ordinary from the exercise because I am frequently quiet. It just made me want to be silent more often. Try to find a short scene from a favorite movie in YouTube. Just listen to the sounds without looking at the screen. What do you hear that helps create the sense of the environment? I chose my favorite scene from the […]
