"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.
Review of The Sonic World of Nancy Scott
peter higgins
Posted on January 23, 2007 at 06:01 PM
"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.