Piece Comment

Review of The Fair


The only reason this probably is better for the Internet than the radio is because the Flash presentation adds so much to it! The piece is very impressionistic, visually and aurally, but it really makes clear the double nature of the fair - the day-time fair and the night-time fair. This is accentuated by slightly different visual styles in the day and night Flash sections. What I really like about this piece is the ambiguity in the narrator's tone, which is something that I've always felt towards the fair. You just don't know what to make of it sometimes and all you can do is watch and observe. In that way, I felt like I could empathize with this piece very much. There are also some great moments where the "actualities" sync up with the narration to underscore important parts.