Spatialisation for Installation and Performance Week 8

Artists that have influenced my current work, I think of Ralph Tae-young Choi, the sound designer of the film Parasite, and the sound design of the film Force Majeure, which Tim mentioned in class last week.

The short film Blue depicts two spaces, reality and memory. And Parasite also depicts two spaces, the world of the rich and the world of the poor. Two conflicting worlds, both of which are eventually reconciled. As Walter Murch says: ‘Its a boldly stated version of the goal of any film: to present compelling contradictions and resolve them inventively . . if they’re too close to begin with, they produce a flat, uninteresting metaphor; if they’re so far apart that you can never resolve them, the whole thing doesn’t make any sense.’ First, two distinct sound worlds are shaped, then the sounds of one world are allowed to enter the other, and eventually the sounds of the two worlds are brought together.

In the film Force Majeure, there is a sequence in which the director edits together footage from inside and outside the resort, interspersed with each other. and the sound of an automatic toothbrush and the sound of a snowstorm intermingle to create a sense of excitement that the two worlds are about to collide. I also noticed that there were always uncomfortable or high frequency sounds in the Interior spaces, such as the vibrating mobile phone while sleeping, the sound of the automatic toothbrush vibrating, and the mechanical sound of a sliding belt. This also gave me some inspiration.