[NetBehaviour] the house (part two)

Wed Jan 3 19:32:04 CET 2018

Hi Edward -forgive the long delay in replying. It's because I wanted to do your comments justice and I was still tied up with end of the holidays stuff...
So first -there isn't any manipulation of the quality of my voice -that's just as is, recorded on my trusty Roland WAV recorder... I think perhaps it's different when we have lunch together and you can see my increasingly craggy face & that perhaps mentally ages my voice for you :)The manipulations are purely 'musical' on intention and effect ( the piece was originally simply a sound piece for a competition, where it sank without trace), though not led by any kind of programme or agenda - I liked a stuttering effect that came up as I was editing and that became part of the piece in more than one place.(Bye the bye, I do have quite a severe stammer but it only manifests on rare occasions now. Anyone who has witnessed it in action will not forget it.)
As for my grandad - this was  time when only one member of our family ( one of my uncles) owned a car so even in a town like Sheffield peoples' experiences of parts other than where they lived and the town centre and points between were often quite limited. The places my Grandfather saw ( and these were layered on top of each other on more and more distant hills, often obscured by cloud, or mist or rain) were places he might have visited only once or twice in his lifetime - his immediate stamping ground was a chunk of Sheffield running from the city centre out through the contiguous areas of Upperthorpe , Walkley, Crookes and eventually out to where I grew up in Crosspool. He was razor sharp but childlike in the best sense until his final illness at 88.
Finally the mixture of voices, of narrative tones, happens because so much of this is 'foundational' for me -I still think of  -and also *feel* many of these things, maybe just for seconds, every day, so it has been worked over both in my memory and in conversations with my late mother and father and now my sister who still lives only a mile or so away from the house described here... It's very interesting to hear how that strikes you as a careful and sensitive observer as well as someone with well developed literary reflexes... It makes me happy that it does...thanks so much for looking, listening and thinking about it so carefullyMichael

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  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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   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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