Before I can start, I need a script. I’m planning to use the video audio for the vocals in my sound piece so a script is needed because I can’t improvise it.
Here’s one I made earlier:
“(Jazz) 74
Hey Everybody! Welcome back to the show! Its the yearly review of all the highs and the lows.
As you all know, this year I was studying sound art, but I’ve only got 5 mins so I suppose I’ll make a start.
So, I could separate the year into 3 main veins, what I learnt, what was interesting and how my craft has changed.
But, that’s a little dry so I’ll give this a try and I’ll separate this video into these 3 topics
First we’ve got soundscapes (tweet tweet tweet)
And then we’ve got the noise (silence or low buzz longer than it should be)
And lastly we have what I like the melting pot (dodo, dodo, dodo, dodo do)
(Epic music, like a pads and lower tempo) 60
It was in the first term, the year, still fresh.
We had a task called a sound walk, to close your eyes and, walk
Hark, what is that? The sound of the breeze
The rustle of leaves
The buzzing of bees
And then the birds, and its third, and maybe a plane
And because we live in london, there’s also a car and a train
(Jazz) 74
But I’ll leave it at that because it’s a task of few joys, so here’s the next topic, I think I called it the (noise)
(Rap) 84
It was fun to expand my skill set, to rip the safety net, to learn from artists met, even if you can’t see it.
‘cuz I know now how to sculpt white noise into pink, make track using ink, and plug in a modular sink, synth.
Something I can’t forget as a sound artist you have to have met, the work of John Cage, 433 moments of silent neglect
(Silence)
(Cough)
Brilliant
(Jazz) 74
But really this is just the lead up to my last part, an Amalgamation of my skills, the melting pot, of my art.
I couldn’t say I’m a sound artist, because before this course. I was making art, music, videos and all differnt sorts
and if i was forced to answer, what is a sound artist to you? hmm, Well, I could probably show you through
this, that, that and that this.
If those are random things, sound arts are the links.
To round things off, this year was nice, I furthered my craft, even if at great price
and hope things go well, for I don’t know how to program, or make a rap, but that’s enough of that
“
As one can tell, I am neither a linguist nor a rapper; however, I thought this was a decently comical script while also being okay (even if quite amateuristic) musically.
What I’m trying to do with the script is be interesting. I could easily write something that portrays more of what I’m trying to go for or have more on-the-nose jokes but the premise is funny enough and it’s better to not say everything well than say everything badly.
I haven’t really made it clear in the script, but what I’m going for is a rap and the numbers next to the “themes” of each part represent the bpm I’m rapping at. As something who hasn’t really rapped before, it will be interesting what the product is.