There is an art to listening. Brunswick, Maine sound artist Nancy Scott's ears are tuned to the sounds most of us overlook. With her friend and mentor Alyce Ornella, Nancy explores the tonality of the everyday world.
Photo by Louise Baker.
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There is an art to listening. Brunswick, Maine sound artist Nancy Scott's ears are tuned to the sounds most of us overlook. With her friend and mentor Alyce Ornella, Nancy explores the tonality of the everyday world. Photo by Louise Baker.
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Review of The Sonic World of Nancy ScottI enjoyed this piece very much. The pacing is good, and the structural movement from the introduction to the artist collective and back home works well. However, I think that this would have been a perfect opportunity to actually include some of the sound collages. It seemed like part of the point was to emphasize how Ms. Scott is primarily an artist, not a "special-needs artist", but not to include much of her sounds, in the way she has put them together, undercuts this claim. Thanks! |
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Review of The Sonic World of Nancy Scott"Nancy's ears never disengage". Nancy Scott is a sound artist at Spindle Works Co-Op in Brunswick, Maine that pays close attention to the sounds that most of us try not to notice. She records the kinds of sounds that make up the greater portion of most of our days, the unpretty sounds, the scraping, humming, clicking noises that we usually filter out. The sounds that are the byproducts of the "useful" objects in our lives and homes. Producer Sam Greenspan tells Nancy's story with compassion, and appropriately fills the piece with environmental sounds - a creaking door, typing, passing cars. Choosing to continue the garage door hum after the narration stops and then bring up Nancy's whispered advice "listen, listen" made a great ending to the piece, in my opinion. |
Sam Greenspan
Posted on January 19, 2009 at 10:07 AM | Permalink
Re: Hearing Nancy's Sound Art in the Piece
I'm sorry that I didn't make it clearer when I made this piece, but the ambient sounds--the creaking door, the woods, the passing cars--are all excerpts from Nancy's CD. I hope one day to revisit this piece and clear this up.