In short

Checking up on my buried item, it has been destroyed on the ground crumbled into pieces through the weather or through gravity itself. The bulb in which inspired me to create my final project has been shatter in which it will spread out more to continue to shatter more and more til its pieces are unrecognizable. Once one item like my head, it has expanded to many pieces like my mood and how my brain works. its funny to see and change some what of a connection between me and the light bulb.

pictures upload fail since I'm poor with none but if i have a chance i shall post it up for a secret surprise.

Final Post!

Final update on the status of my project: not finished!

I reburied my test-tube souvenirs two weeks ago, and they remain beneath the log. I think I'll check up on them in a few weeks.

My website is also under construction, but is viewable here, with plenty of new content.

Love,

Anna

Final: Buried Time Mapping Before & After

TIME MAPPING PROJECT URL REQUEST

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Final: Time Mapping Choir

This project came to me through various ways over the course of a few months span of time, it only took a few interesting concepts to be woven together into one succinct medium for things to really seem right. I had found this wonderful old gospel recording of this woman in the fall while I was on tour and instantly knew I needed to do something with it, at that time I wasn't quite sure if I would sample it or cover the song in its entirety. After that one of my good friend's Grandmother passed away, watching her go through that was very intense. I soon realized I had the exact same relationship with my Grandmother that she did, she was like my mother. This sudden realization of death and urgency to preserve more of my Grandmother was something that beat at the heart of this project. I wanted to make a choir for a long time and record it, so I came up with the idea of using the repeated line from the gospel song I found as the lyrics for this new choir I was going to assemble. I thought the only way I could get my Grandma to sing on a song of mine would be if there were a lot of other people singing with her just for the fact that she had made it known she will only ever sing in church as she believes she is not the best of singers. So the goal then became clear, I needed to set out in search of the friends and loved ones in my life that could sing and collect their voices for the choir. It was a beautiful process to see come into fruition as I was so lucky to be able to hear all these voices of the people I love all put together overlapping in one space for me to play back over and over. It was like recording little special parts of their soul and keeping them for myself. Every time I would go and record someone, a lot of memories would flood in as to how I knew them and how we met. The recording aspects were a bit difficult as I didn't do the proper way of recording everyone in one room all at once, I was going around to their houses and recording them. This proved to be an issue I had to work on in post-production dealing with acoustics and the timbre of the room sounds. I plan on continuing to recruit more voices into the choir, this song will be going on the new record I am writing now and I plan on giving this particular track a lot of love and time to assess over the next year. I have an idea for a gallery exhibition of this project when it is perhaps finished, I think it might be nice to separate the voices and have them playing from different parts of the room of the gallery. Then the gallery would be decorated with some drawings and photos of my Grandmother. This was definitely a really fulfilling process and I can't wait for the finished product, but it also has this underlying notion that we all are never done building our choirs of loved ones, we are always introducing new people into our lives.

Final: Environmental Collaberation

(Before)

(After)

When I started excavation on this project months ago, the soil was frozen solid and took an hour to find the location that had just enough give so that I could lower this found-object action figure into the ground. I did not put too much thought into the object I laid to rest, I wish I had picked an object made of material that would have disintegrated faster, for the only difference that took place in the toy when I dug it up was that its leg had broken off. I guess I was hoping for more of a transformation, but I enjoyed the process of picking a burial site and decorating its nesting place with my bare hands.

Sun's Path June to December

Other Maps

I wanted to share another map that I have been making for over a year now. I have a blog where I save things I find on the internet. At this point I post multiple times a day. It's become a strange community of people I follow and re-blog as well as people who follow me and re-blog what I post. Some are people I know in real life and others I only know through their posts online. Visit.

Final environmental collaboration: before and after

Upon returning to the site of my burial project, I was surprised to see that it had somehow slid out of the log I had jammed it in, and the elements had done quite a number on my old cell phone, even though it was encased in a glass box. The best way to show the contrast between the environment I left it in, as well as the time capsule itself, I thought I'd post some "before and after" pictures.

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(after)

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I loved seeing the environment come to life over the course of the semester, and seeing the contrast between the snow and the new buds. And in case you were wondering, the cell phone no longer works. :)

My Emotions has settled as the sun has finally shown up, putting some vitamin d into my body. My project has been an ongoing wave of lines and more is yet to come. Limited to just sound and motion of the lines. its created a weird mixture.

Meal Map

This was a project I did when I went home for Passover. It is a map of what happens at my dining room table at a holiday meal, and aims to characterize the people that are not present in the video. I am thinking about using parts of it for my main time mapping project. Dine In.

TV Mapping Blog

I am starting a blog to collect all of my TV clips. I can only upload so much a day so it will take me a few days to get it all up there, but enjoy.

The Simmer (Stage 2: Collection)

I was fortunate enough to go home for some of Passover, and it gave me a great opportunity to make notes about interactions between my brother and my father. I was also able to collect some old photographs and music. See a sample below!

A Few Favorite TV Moments

Audio

For the curiosity of anyone (if there is anyone) here is the audio that I will be using. It is called "First Train Home", this is the instrumental version by Imogen Heap.

New Edition: Jaime Gimenez

My friend Jaime added some amazing falsetto tracks to the choir, I am working on figuring out the very minimal instrumentation I want to add towards the end, most likely it will be clarinet, trumpet, and violin.

Burial UpD8

Upon investigation this evening, one of the tubes and its contents is totally missing from the site. Another item was found on the ground a few inches from the others.

All of the lids were off, and only 3 of the original 5 remained. Of those 3, 2 were misshapen as if they had suffered some sort of trauma of impact.

There was a strong foul odor coming from the site that was noticeable about 5-6 feet away, and especially offensive up close.

The Simmer (Stage 1: Overview)

CONTENT: Brother/ Father Collision
-Juxtaposition of behaviors
-Reversal of roles
-Loss of self

CONCEPT: Change. We know we are always changing, but not purely in a forward motion.
-One changes forwards, and one backwards. We flip, and spiral, and loop.
-The time line is not a single straight line!

THEMES:
-Tradition
-Preconceptions
-Ideals/Perfection
-Vulnerability
-Violence/Terror
-The Unknown
-The Hidden
-Family
-Responsibility
-Freedom Vs. Entrapment
-MORE??

MATERIALS:
Sound
Writing
Pictures (Old and New)
Movement
Time

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I'm also posting a video of an installation I had in the A&D service elevator. The music/sound aspect of it is similar to Josh's project in that it is a collaboration of many people. For a full explanation you can see the description on youtube.

Elevate.

(Another) Update on Moa

So I went to the burial site and excavated my copper bird, Moa. The site really has changed quite a bit and so has Moa.

Before the burial.








Midway through the burial.








On the day of the excavation; the oxidization that occurred on the wings really makes Moa blend into the burial area.

i don't know what this is...

...but it's definitely time mapping.

a friend in our blog community.

a.beryl.a.day

(A map of a beryl on a day in time:

See the full size image and the other beryls on the map at a.beryl.a.day
(italicized content added by forkergirl)

Chicago

I've been in Chicago for the last few days, I didn't get much video footage because I was pretty busy but I did get some nice stills that I might be able to work with in my video.

New Edition: Miss Katie Lee

Mmmhmm the choir just got that much soulfullerRRrr, my friend Katie was kind enough to come over on the spot tonight and add some vocals... and and and it was a 3 part harmony at that! I am looking forward to getting some guys onto the first our brother the native choir, BOYS WHERE YOU AT?!

Pants in Spring time

the wind's doing?

Free Stuff!

I found two boxes full of free stuff on Packard street last week. I took everything. I plan on placing each object around campus as little presents to whoever wants to take it.

Someone left their freshly made sandwich by west hall...such a shame....looked tastey. I wonder who ate it. maybe a squirrel?

Embodied disembodiment

I felt very inspired by these "echo mousepads" that recorded and mapped the artist's hand as it operated in virtual space:







































































To map my own physical use of digital production I started recording myself as I work.

Raw TV Footage

I am uploading some of my raw footage of the television in my living room. I plan to work with each clip as a separate entity. I will experiment with re-filming it and seeing how the sound and video changes...

Further wanderings...

I have most of the footage that I hope to collect now but yesterday I went to a 'masquerade ball' for the apartment area that I live in. While it was not the most noteworthy of events it was much more interesting to wander about in costume in exceptionally ordinary places. The reactions of the people that we saw was pretty fantastic- ranging from taking pictures with us to pretending that they couldn't see us.

"Lately, I’ve been wondering if sitting quietly in a café, pretending to read a newspaper, and not writing is the most earnest expression in our age: no echoes of language, nothing to reblog, just pure unmitigated self sitting with self. I might, after a time of blank staring, find myself constructing a sentences in my head, maybe a paragraph, simply letting the words roll around in my mind. I will not. I repeat. I will not write them down. They are my secret sentences, not yours."
-Andrew Simone

New angel in the choir

So this weekend I recorded my friend Shannon and I got her lazer beam falsetto striking through the mix, it really strengthens the recording, she and my mom create a really full whisper tone, while me and the old woman project this more gritty rough timbre in the background. Its starting to come together!