Audio Composition

Making this audio composition was really interesting. I tried to relate Wikileaks with the illegal downloading of music from programs like Napster. I found that audio is a much easier tool to work with when trying to control where the audience places their attention. With audio you can control when someone heres a piece of information. With an image, you can control when the audience sees different things by using contrast shifts, vignettes, and other techniques, but it's just way simpler with audio.

I wanted my audio composition to feel sort of gumbled together representing the way that the internet is in just a super saturated web for most people is much wider than it is deep. In other words you can learn a little about a lot of different subjects online but you can learn a lot about a specific subject if you read a book. For me the internet is so saturated with information that it makes it hard for me to learn things. It's hard to know what you want when there are thousands of links everywhere. Someone once told me that if you sell Jam, sell 3 different choices for the customers, if you sell more than three, you sell less jam because there is too much to choose from that people won't know exactly what to pick. The internet is trying to sell too many choices of jam.

With text you have very sharp control over when an audience gets a piece of information. You also have a very high probability that they will get the message that you want to get out because you can explain it verbatim for them and you don't have to worry about if they may not have heard it clearly. You can play music to give an undertone to your message as well with audio.