The Process Piece


Have you ever woken up in the morning and thought:
"Man! I wish I had a nice, cold bowl of cereal right now. But alas, it is too difficult a process and I have never learned the art."

Yeah. You probably haven't. (and you probably have never changed into an olden time British accent in the middle of that thought either)

But in case you were wanting to learn, heres an audio process piece explaining it:


https://soundcloud.com/rissa6/cereal


Enjoy!

Artist Statement:

This audio piece is a sarcastic narrative depicting exaggerated event of getting a bowl of cereal for breakfast in the morning. Drawing from the process piece videos we viewed both in and out of class we chose to record an everyday occurrence that most people do not stop and take the time to think about how it sounds. After observing carefully the various everyday noises that we encounter we discovered the rich audio that comes from prepping, eating, and finishing a bowl of cereal. Our first trial of recording our audio was strictly noise only with no narrative, which provided some serious concentration to make out what exactly was going on. After sharing our piece with another group and them sharing theirs with us we realized that this piece could be so much clearer and edifying with a narrative added to it. Our goal is to wake people up to their own senses, especially in the mornings. Normally when people get up and eat cereal they are still pretty sleepy and for the most part unobservant. So we agreed to awaken people to the beauty and fun in our early morning routines and to notice all the little details involved in the sounds you make while eating breakfast. Even the mundane everyday tasks in our lives that we sometimes do only for the sake of doing them, or in this case for survival, since food is a necessity, can be entertaining and fun when you pause to appreciate what your making, not just for your stomach to consume, but you ears as well. This piece of work is not intended so much to be educational or philosophical as it is to be fun and humorous. We created this with the well-known philosophy in mind, which is, that you cannot appreciate what you do not know is there.