Throughout the lecture Angus introduced many intresting ideas from his fieldwork practice. The main thread that linked these ideas were his work on field notes. He also talled of writing constraints, the voice and anti sonic exceptionalism.
I found his dedication to field note taking a semi journaling/scrapbooking, semi remembering/timestamping particularly impressive. Creating a physical archive of his field work and treating it as art in and of itself. A direct and live form. I also found his labeling of the voice as the horror very interesting. He shared when he had taken things too far – reading his field notes.
Without seeing the mouth the voice becomes a texural component.
Although a daunting sounding concept I found myself agreeing with his ideas of anti sonic exceptionalism – some intresting points were ideas of the uncinematic and unmusical, the reminder and remainder of ego, and ‘no input’ field recording. Perhaps another link to fluxus can be made here in terms of valuing the process rather than platforming the art object as well as challenging the ego.
I found this lecture interesting as language and semantics have been cropping up in my thought recently as well as voice in terms of perspective and am trying to think of a way to push myself in my next assignment.