Since working with sound is new to me, it's hard to separate the sound and visual completely, and work on each independently. The sound I created for my piece, was
definitely created with the visual in mind every step of the way. However, the exercise of taking my visual piece and playing it with a sound piece created by someone else (intended to go with their visual) showed that great things can come out of the pairing of two unassociated works. When my visual was played along with
another's sound, "happy accidents" were created--areas where the image and sound went beautifully together, either because at times the sound and visual synced perfectly, making it seem as if the sound was created for the visual, or because the sound
amplified an aspect in a unique/unusual way, or even because of a strong contradiction. The sound worked really well with my visual, and the surprise in that made it even more special.
I believe that my original [and final] piece of sound better expresses the ideas of fire I wanted to convey--it's dualities--the ability to light/reveal or dark/conceal, to purify/create or destroy, the associations people have with it from happy times reading by the fire, or the smell of a birthday party when the candles are blown out, to the sound of sirens and destruction and loss. The second piece with my partner's sound also works for me--it has a completely different feel, and not the feel that i was intending, but when played along side with the original video it creates an entire other duality piece. The same video played twice with different sound expresses that duality even further.
Stop Motion with partner's sound
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