Process Audio

Our piece follows the process of doing the dishes from opening the tap to putting the dishes away. We recorded the sounds of each individual task separately to then edit it all together. First we recorded the sound of running water, which we then looped so it would keep playing in the background. Then, we added the rest of the process to it. 

We chose this particular process because doing the dishes creates a lot of noise and it would give us a lot to work with once we were ready to edit. When we started editing, we wondered about the different ways in which we could present the process and finally decided that the linear form would be most convenient for this process.  As we were recording, we focused heavily on the different steps to doing dishes rather than the significance of those steps. Our main concern is that it has a clear beginning, middle, and ending. There is neither metaphor nor lesson; it is a simple process and we thought it should be presented on a simple way. 

In a way we can relate this to Dean Duncan’s  “Scriptures”.  In this short, Duncan shows us the processes of family scripture study in a chronological way, only interrupted by a series of interviews relating the participant’s views on scripture study time. Nevertherless, we never hear commentary directly from Dean Duncan. Also, the Sternfeld photos are accompanied by brief chronological narratives conveying the history of the places being photographed without additional commentary from the artist. Surely, Sternfeld and Duncan had a point to make in their pieces but they both present us with linear narratives that allow us to make sense of them on our own.  We can look closely at Stenfeld’s photo of Mount Rushmore and marvel at the craftsmanship or feel distraught for the tribe who was kicked out of their land even before the monument was built.

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