Blog 6: Response to “Cardiff, Miller and the Power of Sound”

This article shows us a kind of very interesting artwork------using sound to record lives. Cardiff and Miller is a couple of artists who are famous of their work of sound. The article talks about what happen to artists Cardiff and Miller when they were making their artwork. They recorded almost all their lives, their travels, their dialogues. When people come and listen their artworks, they can feel that they become the persons in the recording and they can feel everything happens. For example, in their artwork “The Murder of Crows”, people can feel a kind of the strangest and most fraught periods of lives happened to artists Cardiff and Miller. This is really an interesting and amazing experience.

After reading this article, I find this could be a really interesting experience for us to feel the art. Nowadays, almost all of us have a device to record sound like our cell phone, mp3 and so on. We can try what artists Cardiff and Miller do by recording one day of our lives! Maybe we can find some great and amazing things.