Blog 6- Wray

In Wray’s article, what I found new to me was that artist can make a exhibition of sound. I got the same feeling when I was reading “Sound feels more directly tied to memory, and to dreams.” Sounds can be recorded in the deep memories unconsciously, and it could be a person’s voice, a piece of dialogue in TV drama, the sound of chewing sunflower seeds when I was sitting on my mom’s knees lying my ear on her chest. I can understand that sound is tightly tied with memory and the old time, it is an important method to create memories when I was too young to choose what to remember. I’m currently watch one of my favorite anime Slam Dunk for the second time to help me come up with my memory and feeling about my childhood, more than fifteen years ago, when I was too young to understand what the opening and ending songs of the anime in Japanese. But I indeed remember the melody, perhaps I will never forget them in my rest of my life. The sounds come with the memories of my 6-7-years-old time, then I wanted to cry. So I like the artists’ idea about sound, because the sound is more powerful than my estimates.

 

Well it is hard for me to read this article word by word (I did read some articles very carefully), maybe because there are so many words to look up in a dictionary. I think the introduction of Cardiff and Miller’s background and their history is good to help me to understand the article. I wish if there were some illustrations to help me imagine how their work looked like, though I could not hear it.