Photos at Sound Oasis

Kyle, director, setting up the camera stand and Crystal, Director of photography, setting up the camera at Sound Oasis
Crystal, Director of photography and Ryan, post-production editor, setting up white balance before an interview
Crystal, Director of Photography, setting up the camera at Sound Oasis.

Change of tittle.

"Open Your Ears"

Film structure rough draft

Tension/Conflict
Tension between people of society and noise artists.
Conflict of use of urban space.
Use of noise are and their use of space/time (sound oasis in Mexico City vs. Long Beach State)
VISUALS; annoyed cell phone girl/confused sound oasis audience/student reaction & definitions of noise.
"Noise is unwanted sound." Merzbow/Francisca
Artists use of noise art as a form of expression.
Explore different artists' personal applications of sound;
1. UltraRed= social awareness/activism
2. Creative expression= Christian Cruz
3. other topics

Noise: unavoidable art form, sound can't be ignored.
Traditional art (film, paintings) you can easily choose to ignore or look away.
You can only look at a picture so long, view a film, but once it's over, it's over. You can listen to sound art all day and it affects you on a deeper level; more emotions drawn.
- Material from Francisca

10/17/07

Our group met in the lab to view our tapes and begin editing.

10/10/07

Our group went to Yorba Linda to interview with Christiaan Cruz, an artist we met at the sound walk. He allowed an interview at his house. Great shots were taken of his house. The interview was filmed in the room where he creates his "noise". there was good lighting and sound in that room. The inerview lasted about 40 minutes.

10/09/07

Our group met on campus for an interview with Chris Socates, University Art Museum Director for an interview at 1:30 pm. The fire drill delayed the interview. We filmed in the UAM reading room.

Our group went back to upper campus after the interview to film students wandering around the speakers and displays from Sound Oasis. we were also interested in filming student reactions to specific pieces of the event. Our group interviewed 4 students that were on site. The students had left by about 6:30 pm.

10/08/07

Our group attended and filmed the Sound Oasis panel discussion at the Daniel Recital Hall at 5:30 pm. The panel discussion featured Francisca Rivera-Lake, Sound Oasis creator; Carla Vera-Hernandez, event documenter; Leandro Villahas and Elizabeth Blaney from Ultra red, performers at Sound Oasis; Luz Maria Sanchez, performer at Sound Oasis. The discussion lasted about an hour an a half and we were able to interview Luz Maria Sanchez and Ultra Red to find out more about their performances at Sound Oasis.

10/06/07

Our group met at 4:30PM at the upper campus quad at CSULB to film the Sound Oasis opening night. Director of Photography was setting up shots for the film. We were there to document the setup of the lawn displays and the stage for opening. Our group set up on site for interviews and filming in the lecture hall. At 8:30 pm we were able to get an interview with someone in the general public who had been at the event since the start at 6:45 om. The informant gave us a lot of interesting feedback, but the shotgun mic was not picking up sound. The next interview was with mark, an artist from Phog masheeen, and his wife Francine. This time the shotgun mic was working fine. the event ended at 9:30 pm.

10/05/07

Before filming, we got clearance from the University Art Museum that we would be able to film and part of the event for our film. Brian Trimble was also able to arrange interviews with the creator of the original Oasis Sonoro in Mexico City and Martyn Ware from Illustrious Company on Friday.

Our group interviewed in anthropology lab LA5 with Martyn Ware from 2-5pm

9/22/07

Group met for Sound walk 2007 in LB East Village Arts District. Walked around listening to sound artists and tried to find out what artists we wanted to interview. We decided to focus the film on the noise genre. We were informed by the artists in Phog Masheeen that there would be an iternation noise art event at CSULB in October.