So far, all of my ideas are pretty nebulous at the moment. My clearest and most cohesive idea is to take Anne Carson’s essay “Kinds of Water,” which describes her journey along El Camino de Santiago in Spain, and remix excerpts from the essay (either recordings of someone reading the essay or just text from the essay) to…
7: Geographical Poetry Turned to Song
Back when I wrote poetry and took an Advanced Poetry class, I wrote a collection of fifty poems, each based in a state in the US. My number one idea for the project is to select multiple poems from this and turn them into songs. Play guitar, give the words melody, and record and mix…
Two Pitches, One Project
My number one most okayest idea is to create a website or digital text of some sort that looks at different interpretations around the world of the Trump campaign and inauguration. Throughout the world, responses were varied and it is this varying of thought about the event that my project seeks to analyze and make…
7: Ok-est 3 Ideas
My first idea, and probably the most doable, involves mixing audio and visual content. The recent winter Olympic games reminded me of just how funny sports narration can be when taken out of context, and I think it could be even more well employed when layered over videos that do not match, at least not…
7: Remix/Recirculate Idea…
Hello! My idea for this second project is to make a complicated video/gif project. I want to take a poem, make an erasure poem from that, make video representations of the original and the erasure poem, and take those videos and make gifs from them. The video representations will hopefully be different enough that…
7. My Remix Pitch
I had a few ideas for a remix but in the end I decided to combine the audio from an advertisement for oil with the video from a nature documentary. This would serve to highlight the irony of propaganda when compared to reality. Its audience would be young people interested in environmental activism. I would…