Music From The Other Room
Multimedia lab experimenting with image and sound. We try to do things as they are not supposed to be done.
The phone keeps ringing.
This piece was produced for the 2016 Very, Very, Short, Short Stories contest and was inspired by the rules of CLIFFORD THOMPSON
Dialogue: "Do one thing for a person, and he think he owes you; do everything for a person, and he thinks you owe him."
Sound: Cicadas whirring
Narrative: The action takes place during the hottest summer on record.
In a small shop they gather, knowingly submitting to the last breaths of suffocation, exsanguination, and repose in a world torn by snow flakes.
This piece was produced for the 2016 Very, Very, Short, Short Stories contest and was inspired by the rules of CAROL ZOREF:
Dialogue: "The animals kept arriving."
Sound: Knives being sharpened.
Narrative: Someone dies from suffocation.
"Waiting for Charon" was produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann for The Sarahs' Very Very Short, Short Stories Contest. The challenge was to create a 2-3 minute audio fiction piece inspired by one of 3 sentences. This piece was inspired by Mary Morris' sentence: “The Gem sisters slept in the order in which they were born.” It was mixed, edited, and scored by Garrett D. Tiedemann.
Tape Extracts:
On this as we pass.
On this as we pass.
On this as we pass.
As we say goodbye.
We bury them in the mud.
(child singing) In the mud, in the mud, in the mud, in the mud. (Indiscernible) scoop some mud in the mud.
A wise old owl lived in an oak.
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird.
(unknown woman) Hello? Yes. Hi, can you hear me ok.
(indiscernible voices and sound)
(unknown woman 2) I didn't say that right. Or did I?
Bury them in the mud.
(indiscernible voices and sound)
(unknown woman 2) Ok, ok, I'm gonna stop because I don't know what else to say right now.
(unknown woman) Hello?
(unknown man) Yes, this is John.
(unknown woman) Yes. Hi, can you hear me ok?
(unknown man) I know why you're calling.
(unknown woman) I can totally hear you.
(unknown man) You did? Oh, you did?
(unknown woman) I think I'm doing everything right. Got a good signal.
(unknown man) I guess that's it then. Thanks anyway.
(unknown woman 2) So, I would just sit and stare out at the trees.