HYE: midterm reflection "sonic narratives"

Reflection of "Sonic Narratives"

Strength - installation 
This collaborations is a good experience to learn how to use "ultrasonic range finder", build wave shield, figure out codes, make boxes and present them as a nice installation. We wanted to create open and unlimited narratives with collected sounds from daily environment.  So, we have a specific method and visual aesthetic to execute for the project, and I thought they were successful.

Weakness - lack of the concept development
As a participant, why are I am interested in listening random sounds from sound boxes?
As a participant, why do I want to listen sound and why do I want to write the story to share with a typewriter?
We were focusing how to make the sensor work, but we didn't consider enough why to make, listen, write, and eventually why to create an open narrative.

As a collaboration, we were fascinated with artistic methods and visual choices, but we didn't seriously agree with what kind of contents communicate with participants. Especially we used random sounds to not to make a specific space or narrow story, but eventually any sound we collected become meaningless. I realized that there is attraction but danger to have "open narratives," because how artists make more open narratives through making intentional visual choices. If we collect and decide to play some sounds, but only play them random, how does it make "open narratives"? Is it a just degree of how much artists control or not control?

Further development
After the critique, I want to have specific direction of sound to have more responsibility and to make "open narrative" against some matter such as intimacy, private place or body sound through discussing with collaborators.
Also, we will develop our work more and have a show of "sonic narrative" in January 18th at WARPhaus gallery.