Audio Recording

For this project we were asked to create an audio piece that presented a process. Although many processes have very interesting sounds, my partner and I were drawn to the idea of showing the sounds of a human process. We had seen several documentaries in class that showed processes, but most of them were interesting, not because of the process, but because as we watched the process performed we learned more about the individuals who were involved. This is why I was interested in recording a process that highlighted the subject’s process over the performed process. 

Thinking about human processes, we discussed some ideas such as fights and apologies, but landed on the idea of acceptance. That is, allowing things to happen in our life that are hard at first. In life, you can see that children rarely do this, they are set in what they like and don’t like and what they will do and what they won’t. Yet as adults we choose to cross those lines and put ourselves through things that we aren’t okay with at first; such as eating foods that don’t taste good, going to work even when it’s hard, providing service for others, or visiting people we don’t get along with. This is a process we go through all the time and we all have our own ways of doing it: sometimes we just take a big breath and leap into action or we talk ourselves through it one step at a time. This process we recorded is one person’s experience with working through something they don’t want to do; it is true to life, non-scripted and not exaggerated.

https://soundcloud.com/april-joyner/eating-peas