Die With Your Boots On

A potential final draft of the final project.

Comments are always welcomed. :)

Let's Try This Again. [Final Project Draft]

A complete departure from my previous draft.

Also: rough. Rough, rough, rough.

I attended a family reunion/Easter party this past weekend, and saw an opportunity to record some of my family members. What you're listening to is a selection of clips from the dinner table (and dinner preparations), pieced together with my young cousin's description of our late grandfather.

I intend to interview my mother and father in order to get more perspectives on my grandfather and our family. I believe that, through their interviews and through my narrative, this piece will finally begin to take shape.

I believe that, ultimately, I would like to focus on the "secrecy" of my grandfather's death. He didn't tell his family members that he was suffering from bone marrow cancer until it was too late, and not many of his grandchildren were made aware that he passed away in his son's home. I'm curious what happened there.

Final Project Draft

Warning: as usual, this is a very rough draft. I still have plenty of interviews to hold.

In a sense, this is an audio portrait of my mother's family. I intend to center the piece around the death of my maternal grandmother, as she is the one credited with "keeping the family together." When she died, members of her extended family began distancing themselves from one another.

I would like to include a few stories about the family spending time together, or, ideally, stories about my grandmother and her relationship with her children, nieces, and nephews.

It Just Sucks Not Smoking

Honestly, I'd love to have another go at this piece. I never got a chance to have a one-on-one interview with the young man (referred to here as "Travis"), and I'd like to include his side of the story in a future draft. Also, some of the cuts are still a bit rough for my taste.

Audio Portrait [Rough/Short Draft]

This is a very rough draft of my Audio Portrait assignment. In this piece, a young woman talks about her boyfriend's choice to stop smoking marijuana, and how she finds the drug too difficult to give up herself.

This will be much longer in the end, but I currently have forty-five minutes' worth of material to sift through. This is merely a sample. The cuts and levels are all pretty rough, as well.

Gridlocked [Final Final?]

The final rendition of the Sonic Haiku assignment. Perhaps.

Gridlocked: Eastbound [Final Draft]

This is the final draft of my Sonic Haiku. Two highways are depicted: I-94E (panned right) and I-94W (panned left). The traffic on the I-94E is stopped, while the traffic on I-94W is flowing steadily.