Listening to “Curtain” by Derek Baron released on the 7th of August 2020, I was inspired and influenced by the rawness and almost vulgarity of the recordings which sounded as if they were cut up and stitched together in a beautiful way. I liked the gaps in-between the ever evolving instrumental. I was inspired by this and I think it would be god to take inspiration from this for my creative sound piece that I have to create for this unit. I was thinking I could cut up tape and play around with timing for the final piece as this is something I haven’t got round to doing and would be a good experimentation to see what I could come up with.
I also listened to the piece “Recollects”, the piece starts of with two old people who are suspected to be seen on the cover mid conversation talking about Vitamin C and the grocery store. The piece starts of very intimate and is almost was if you’re in their living room and intruding within their conversation, it feels as if you shouldn’t be listening. They then start talking about travelling and a man that we are not familiar with. The conversation then cuts out and sounds as if someone was on a boat (like the cover), you can hear the water and I suspect Baron and his father talking, I presume it is a father and son fishing bonding session.
I really liked the intimacy of this piece and the way Baron was able to create a feeling of intrusion from the listener, this was done by the way the conversation starts midway and cuts out midway. I also really liked the minimal editing style and that he probably cut up raw recordings and didn’t do much post production with them. I could use inspiration from this as normally I am an over-editor and tend to ruin work with editing it too much so that you can’t make out the original recordings.