[NetBehaviour] the house (part two)

[Edward Picot]

I think it's my connection at home that's the problem. Strangely 
appropriate though, having downloaded the file from We Transfer, because 
the piece, as you say, has got a number of stutterings, hesitations and 
double-starts in it by design. These help to give the feeling that the 
memories aren't coming back to you too smoothly - you're struggling a 
bit to retrieve them and voice them. I'd be interested to know why you 
decided to process your own voice - was it in order to make the 
narration sound younger? I'd also be interested to know more about your 
grandfather. Was he your mother's father or your father's father? When 
he looked out of his bedroom window and couldn't recognise places, was 
this because he'd come from elsewhere to live there, or because he was 
getting confused? My guess would be the second one, as he details about 
his shaving gear suggest that he'd been living in the same house for a 
long time.

The piece has also got an interesting mixture of narrative 
points-of-view - the child's-eye-view of things, which is often mainly 
concerned with sensations, and then the more rational, knowledgeable 
gloss provided by your adult self. But although the rational voice is 
generally your own grown-up one, this division of viewpoints comes to a 
head at the end of the piece, where you remember the glowing cow you saw 
outside your bedroom window, and then your mother's explanation, that 
you must have imagined it because of reading 'The cow jumped over the 
moon' earlier in the day. The impression is rather a complex one - that 
in a sense you're having to peel away the layers of adult perspective 
and superior knowledge in order to get back to the core experiences onto 
which they have layered themselves.

Edward

On 29/12/17 08:17, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
> Well, first of all Edward, thanks for persisting! I can only assume 
> it's something to do with buffering -how fast is your connection at home?
> I did experience something of the same thing on the very first attempt 
> to play it from the Flickr site but it has run sweetly since.
> Some of the stuttering could be deliberate ( the sound, including bits 
> of the voice ( mine :) is manipulated quite a lot.)
> If there is jiggery-pokery it is Flickr's, not mine - like YouTube, 
> Flickr processes the video  for the uploading user to what , one 
> presumes, is some kind of thought through standard and format for 
> streaming...
> I'll send you the complete  mp4 movie by We Transfer ( though you're 
> under no obligation to watch again or even download it!)
> with warmest wishes
> michael
>
>
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> *From:* Edward Picot via NetBehaviour 
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> *To:* netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> *Cc:* Edward Picot <julian.lesaux at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 28, 2017 7:09 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] the house (part two)
>
> Michael,
>
> On my computer at home, this keeps loading up, making some breathing 
> noises, a bit of ticking, a kind of mechanical stuttering, then a few 
> phrases of the text, and then it gets stuck and relaunches itself from 
> the beginning. The first part did the same, but got all the way 
> through eventually. The second part, however, just got stuck and 
> restarted over and over again - but eventually I managed to see it all 
> the way through by looking it up at work, although it still stuttered 
> a bit. I'd be interested to know how it's made - is there some kind of 
> jiggery-pokery going on in the background? Who's that doing the voice?
>
> Edward
>
> On 23/12/17 19:29, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>> second & final part:
>>
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/27458191399/
>>
>> cheers! m
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