Audio Snag

In composing my photo slideshow, have landed on an audio problem: sound quality.  Sound quality is a big, big issue.  I didn’t fully accept that concept when we were working with video, in which medium there are moving images to focus on and (in theory) a greater theme at play.  But when sound is isolated with only still image, poor quality is even more evident, and, in the case of my recorded interviews with Karin Baker, pretty unbearable.  I had clumsily tried to transfer audio from a digital recorder to a mini-DV by rigging a connection between recorder and camera, and that only aggravated the lousy sound and created an additional constant buzz in the foreground.  So next week’s interview– remiked and reworked– will be especially important for contextualizing Karin’s images; I really want to do them justice.

 In the meantime, two of my favorite images are below: the first, Karin (left) and her sister in the studio Karin created in the family’s basement when she was ten years old (she gave dance lessons there into her teenaged years); the second, a later news clipping of Karin (left again) with a few of her younger pupils.