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- Maker: Sabrina Louissaint
- Genre: Sound
- Level: Graduate
- Program: Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
- Course: WRIT 5340: Multimodality & Digital Media
- Instructor: Dr. Eric Mason
- Semester Created: Winter 2021
Description:
In light of the George Floyd trial and countless injustices that continue to happen to Black men and women, this project brings awareness to systemic racial injustice and sheds light to feelings of activism and outright anger. It is important to have conversations surrounding systemic injustice, no matter how uncomfortable they may be. This audio recording is a small glimpse of the thoughts and feelings of tired, young, Black woman.
Sounds:
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Kendrick Lamar Type Beat “Words” – https://youtu.be/EPbnOpVxUUI
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I Have A Dream (Instrumental) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSgfUxwF9B4
Reflection:
Woman. Black Woman. I often reflect on my identity and how it shapes my life. In the scholarly journal article, “Knowing the Self and the Reason for Being: Navigating Racism in the Academy,” Daniel Beverly-Jean writes, “Black women’s bodies are constructed in very specific ways: as the angry Black woman; as the welfare queen; the video vixen; as the caretaker of White children and always as the strong Black woman. We are seldom regarded as brilliant, beautiful, engaging, caring, warm or vulnerable. These markings are imposed upon us by White and other racialized faulty and as such the assaults on us can come from multiple spaces” (Canadian Women Studies). This project started off with a number of ideas. After thought and consideration. I decided I wanted to focus on advocacy. I always wanted to do a spoken words type of reading. Last year I wrote a few think pieces surrounding the injustices happening across the world and BLM (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uv93KoqGfi9lGkcVYqdODmWxed_e8TMe/view). With this project, I decided to revamp my writing and read it out loud with a deep sounding track in the background.
It was a bit difficult to record. I actually sat in my car to ensure there was no noise in the background. Originally, I imagined using audacity or zoom to record in the planning stages, but found that recoding on my phone was the easiest route. I had the sounds play on Youtube, from my laptop. I wanted a track that was empowering. In deciding, it took time to filter though beats that were distracting or too uppity. I loved the idea of including Martin Luther King Jr. in the beginning because it gave power to my voice and project. I never liked listening to myself through audio, but having an inspirational figure and beat in the background made me feel more comfortable recording this project. I admit the transitions were not as smooth as I liked but after recording over 10 takes, it became clear audio recording is not my strong suite. Nevertheless, I was satisfied with the finished product. Its important for projects, such as this, to allow students to explore new realms of creativity. I learned a lot just through the brainstorming and planning phase of this project, and was glad to put together such an important sound.
