Week 8
My Audio Piece
Panic Attack
For my audio piece I created a soundscape of my experience of what a panic attack is. I used to experience panic attacks daily, and I know firsthand how debilitating they can be. Thus, I decided to create the overwhelming experience of a panic attack through sound.
Panic attacks are short, usually a few minutes, onsets of intense anxiety and fear. They can be explained by the body’s activation of flight-or-fight response to a potential danger, except the potential danger is in your head.
Aside from the audio clips used as shown above, I also included the ambient traffic sounds as a way to bring the listener back into reality and out of the panic attack. I used the sounds of scratching on my wooden table and the crumpling of paper to mimic to the chaotic and overwhelming feeling that I associate with a panic attack.
I layered the negative affirmations (negative thoughts that spiral during an attack) and alternated which ear they could be heard in, to create a disorienting effect.
I ended the piece off with a simple “you’re okay”, because it’s usually what either I, or someone else, ends up saying as the panic attack ends.
Chloe:
W1:
Very good notes on Sol Lewitt, Yoko Ono, Nauman , shows evidence of curiosity and engagement with material.
Kilometre image and description – Good thinking and use of gps tech to map and document a KM precisely – and then the leap to a printed 2D piece that shows footsteps – it conveys a km in an original way.
W2: Image of Abramovic/Stillness gesture, and description complete and I appreciate you made yourself uncomfortable/challenged– but kept things simple and meditative. Excellent and thorough notes and thinking through Abramovic’s projects.
W3: 6 conceptual sentences are complete and definitely get the idea – to write the simple formula for actions in each piece, as opposed to broader themes. Defenestration images and descriptions are very good, I like how you describe your thought process, and how you come to ideas based on what is around, and how you experimented with so many different objects with all kinds of results.
W4: Excellent Distancing video, your performance of stillness is solid– and ambitious, I like how you are doing something you normally do in the house where we are confined, as if you are caught in the middle of a moment to something real. Good relevant quote/thinking through it. Excellent detailed research and thinking through Hannah’s work.
Excellent effort on class work, references and these pieces, great work Chole, it’s so fun having you in the class!
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