Recently in biological body notation #4 Category

I decided for my biological body observations to monitor myself. What I wanted to do was to monitor myself on two different levels: memory and movement. At the beginning of the semester I was in a major transitional state as I moved houses and adjusted to my new living space. I noticed patterns in how I moved around the city and how sites like school, work, the bus, and errand routines dictated where I went. I began to try to recall days of the week and exactly where I went, and what paths I took to get to each place. I printed out a map of the city and traced each day vellum.

My hope was that I could amass a large collection of days of the week that looked the same, thus establishing a visual routine reflecting the daily routine. I also was focused on the conceptual notion of the routine and how moving disrupts this. I figured I could use these drawings as a sort of "guide to feeling at home away from home." When I move to another city, I would retrace these steps in the new environment and attempt to create a routine by dictating route. The vellum allows such that the images can be layered on top of each other which could serve as a my overall area of accessibility in the new living location.

This is a subjective transcription of the pitches (without regard to the range capabilities of the double bass) created by my yeast photographs. I read the pitches in the same way I might read medieval neumes (from the bottom up). I have used these photographs in four basic ways: 1) as an abstracted randomized pitch-gathering method, 2) as a basis for determining tempi, 3) as a basis for determining dynamics (dependent on patterns within note clusters), and 4) as a basis for attempting to create a potential sound world for growing and dying yeast.

Soundingpitches.pdf

This week I took the plunge and purchased a background check document. It's suppose to provide property ownership history, criminal records, and most importantly an email, address, and phone number for the person I'm trying to track down. We'll see how it pans out.

-Teréz

02/03/12