For my project I want to create a soothing sound that makes people smile. I will do so by using all of the recordings that I put into the shared google doc of past voicemails of mine- because they bring me joy. I will also take a sound of two from classmates in order to create a tune/ melody/ song of some sort in order to hopefully display a soothing and subtle background to the sound of memories from a specific moment in time. I have realized that voicemails are something that I find deep meaning in and this has led me to keep any voicemail with audible sound that I have received since first getting a phone. I want to emphasize the randomness that your phone catches and how it all makes sense to only the owner of that phone but has meaning to all.
I want to enforce a feeling of nostalgia onto the listeners by emphasizing the emotions that go into a voicemail. A moment, captured in time, kept forever, to remind you that the small moments- the not so important ones- are still important, they’re still there, they still happen. It’s how naive your laugh used to sound, how long it’s been since we’ve last spoken, how much energy was exerted into something so meaningless that it’s not even in my immediate catalog of memory.
I wonder if it’s possible to feel time through sound if it's not personal- I want to explore the feeling I get when I hear the voice of an old friend talking to an old version of myself- or a young voice talking to a young version of me. Can that trigger of nostalgia for me be felt by others with words from people that are close to me and not them? We shall see, we shall try.
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