I think this is one of my more nonsensical works.
I had many ideas for this project, ranging from a swordfight using silverware to recording my sewing machine on all the different stitch settings.
I chose to record the hum of a microwave because it is ongoing, and the process of the microwave door opening and shutting, and the timer beeping, are familiar sounds that also provide us with a mental image that is easy to visualize.
I overlayed chicken sounds that progressed from the soft peeps of baby chicks to the sort of medium-deep clucks of pullets and then ended up with the agitated, loud whining of my oldest hen. Sort of going off the idea that something put in a microwave goes through a process of heating or cooking, a chemical change. What really happens when one microwaves a chicken?
Holy shoot what is happening in the end? Did something explode?😂
ReplyDeleteI love how you got the chicken sounds while the microwave is going. I used to have chickens in my backyard and the rising tension/anxiety of their clucking perfectly fits with the tension of the microwave sound. I also like that the clucking is still there at the end, the chicken survived, it wasn't "cooked", but transformed somehow. I like to imagine that big noise at the end is it jumping out of the microwave and getting its revenge...
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