video project

when i enrolled at York in the Music program, i came to this university b/c it advertised itself as "the interdisciplinary University". misled i thought i could jump around the different faculties of the fine arts. i applied to many different programs other than music for i have a parallel skill and experience in other disciplines but when i came here i felt stuck in this faculty. the university does not allow any student to double major in the same faculty, and supplies very little courses for non-majors in the film, theater and design program. the visual art department provides some lower level courses but still is very restricting. saying this i was very excited to work on a video assignment for this class, and am very proud of my result. the two videos i produced are both independent but work as a dip-tic maintaining a very similar aesthetic but two different messages.
the first video titles "body" is an attempt to physically affect the viewers body with footage and sounds of the human anatomy. i wanted to use the theoretical "brown sound" which is not proven to exist by my understanding, but i like to this possible, is a frequency sub-audible that when exposed to for extended periods of time can loosen the human bowels. not finding a suitable sample online i ended up using Chris Burden's breathing water video where he attempts to breathe water. the audio is a lot of gurgling and choking, accompanied by visuals of old educational footage of turtle hearts and arteries being cut, schizophrenic patients and worms in the human body it does not make the viewer feel very comfortable.
the other video is of San Fransico in 1905 and 1906, before and after a devasting earthquake. the footage is of a street car driving straight on its tracks. the audio is an mix of an old educational film about space and time. the audio is edited to overlap and layer itself so at times being incomprehensible, so you resort back to the video. its an interesting piece were the visual is very monotonous but the audio can be over whelming.
this process has inspired me to start producing more cut-ups of found footage, for i have all the software at home i need to keep producing. i was very proud of the my first two products and hope to keep expanding on them.