#but thats also why I only use track changes and allow authors to accept or decline every change no matter how small

[desert-dyke]

been going back and forth on edits with an editor and was initially frustrated with the cuts he wanted to make. Eventually I straight up told him "this was my inspiration for the piece. These are the feelings that need to come through" and guess what? He didn't realize that and two more rounds of edits later, we landed on a really awesome piece that made me tear up. Moral of the story: your editor wants to help you make the best story you can . Be open to changes, but also if it seems like your editor doesn't understand the piece, speak up!

[natashalallmlitt-blog]

WEEK 3 NOTES

text to speech tests not going well. the aesthetic of the voice has been so typecast to cyborg/sci-fi in recent popular tv-film. i don’t want that to be main focus

vocaloids have limited words, also expensive and will come in popular voices age Hatsune Miku… don’t want that character to be the focus over the text. would prefer a nondescript character voice

Elysia Crampton - Petrichrist. i like this mix of a traditionally ‘good’ beat with cartoonish/‘ugly’ horn sounds.

Elysian dream - vintage synth sounds… horns heard in this track too… not the best beat to dance too but has a club/dance familiarity that makes the weirder sounds accessible i think

Reina - some kind of 90s game nostalgia… sounds like f-zero x or other driving games but with latino drums… bringing race/culture in to popular western memories… i like this

http://faculty.washington.edu/bnaidus/APPLY%20WITHIN.html

Naidus - APPLY WITHIN(last weeks speaker)

voice acting… dreamy american voice… painting job application as far more joyous than it is

voice is kinda blurry and lots of pops… but it adds to how DIY it is and also how bad pre recorded voice messages tend to be. v fragile.

THIS IS NOT A TEST - on nuclear war. warped voice discussing fear of nuclear war. the style feels quite dated. the vocal pedal and very ‘warm’ recording sound.. less crisp.. reminds me a bit of my sylvie tests. relevant to the tastes of the time. something on today’s queer fears with very contemporary digi recording aesthetic is what i am going for.. i like the listening space she has set up… actually i think it’s a found space but has an eerie precarious feel to it.. like the vocals.

tutorial with jasper copper:

agency of objects. vibrant matter- jane bennett

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maybe get nichola to speak about wigan p… make a fake story about queer romance in the club

rewriting histories as queerer

john cleese - on creativity - allow things to happen that will surprise you

Rebecca Solnit ~~~ multiple books

reading for archives class:

fetish of the document - helen wood

urge to revere, need for the ‘real thing’

introducing meaning

cultural authority

documents become obscured by feelings

fetish - self sufficient, autonomy

Essentially fetishism is a personal relationship between man and object and the identity of the owner is reflected or imposed onto that object. Fetishism humanises the object.

The State:

Archives represent collective memory.

…Peasants' Revolt, documents were frequently the target for peasant unrest 30 Contempt for the records of government was a reflection of contempt for the government which had produced them. The archives were subjected to physical abuse (such as urinating over them) before they were destroyed.

Access to official archives is a part of the rights of the citizen '" and .. part of human rights

As an extension of this behaviour, the fetishism displayed by archivists and researchers is also supported. These sections of society can fetishise documents without harm to the State because they are 'licensed members' of the same cyclical process which promotes their uses and value.

These rules teach the group how to correctly venerate archives so that the next time they come into contact with documents they wi II know how to behave towards them and accept the reasons for doing so, because that is what an archivist, superior and more knowledgeable in these matters through training, has told them.

Sensory perception is greatly heightened because it is isolated within the four walls of the repository. This sensory arousal is at the core of emotions towards archives and is a superficial basis for fetishistic behaviour towards them.

Ifyou collect kitsch you are saying 'look how quirky but clever I am' 6 1 If you, as an institution, collect historical documents you are saying, 'We are supporters of your heritage, we value your past and you should value us.' The objects reflect what the collector wishes to be reflected. This is often a feeling of specialness and uniqueness.

The researcher as user:

The diaries of Sylvia Plath have been edited and published.

…However, the nature of Plath 's diaries, beginning as they do in her formative teenage years, is very private. It is clear that they were not meant f()r a wider audience. T

The public as user:

The exhibition is a statement of the former power and extent of Britain's Empire, made by uti Iising the power of the archive.

Baudrillard - cultures of collecting

send pdf to gianine - at pg 36 stuff on british library

The thief as abuser:

The obvious fetishistic thieves are those whose objects of desire, once separated from the archival context, are sexualised.

The majority of thieves lured by the monetary value of archives are those who have gained the trust of repository staff under the guise of bona fide researchers only to abuse their position in order to have access to the material they have deliberately come to steal.

Allematively, 'intellectual thieves', normally academics or even archivists, steal - or 'remove' in their own eyes - an item from a collection in order to possess it and take better care of it rather than for the possibility of financial gain .

Conc:

However, one cannot consider the sanctioned fetish without the perverse.

One cannot focus on one part of the chain and ignore another.

All This Stuff - Anna McNally

The archive is not potentially made up of everything, as is human memory…. Carolyn Steedman

artists need to have a previous knowledge of the artists’ work to seek significance of the objects the have collected and select them for archiving

‘original order’ is never changed to keep things in line with the archivist’s original contextual approach

detail where things were found

easy to blur the documentation of the archive with the archive itself

ernst van Alphen - ‘uncritical belief in the importance of the archive is ultimately blinding because it closes of certain perspectives, it discourages the asking of questions’

Archive Class: Archive Activities

Records kept long term in various formats

Surrounding London parliament is various bodies of power that created a lot of records… birth/death-taxes etc… these form national records… these act as the basis for family histories… etc

very mundane facts in the archive from the war reveal so much e.g. basic food orders explain the tastes and rations which resulted due to the war

Glasgow Women’s Library - started as art project -  set up in the 1980s.

LGBT Archive - started asLGBT history project

Scottish history archive - everyday recordings of people in Scotland… was not possible until late due to people not having access to recording equipment

Black cultural archive - London - 1981

>>> these archive aim to highlight information that hasn’t been archived before or people have grown not to expect to be archived

Activiites:

Accesioning - what we decide to take in and why

Arrangement & cataloguing

Storage/preservation

Access

www.gsaarchives.net

if you want to ask susanna to see something in the archive, look up the reference number online first. thats how she’ll find it!

Look up Collection Development Policy 2016 for more info on GSA archive

We looked at GSAA/REG/2/3

1903-1919 alphabetical student register

and GSAA/REG/3/7

1910-1919 General student register

one by date and one by name with student numbers

maybe in case one person had forgotten numbers they could look up by name? who knows?

look at Glasgow City Archives Website

a sound series on ‘safe spaces’ fantasy and fear tho