Contemporary Issues in Sound Art: dissertation proposal

I had a hard time deciding which route I want to choose for my dissertation paper. Both options, written essay or audio paper, have their advantages and would be useful for me to polish my skills and feel more confident in them. Any written work is my Achilles heel. No matter how much planning or effort I put into my work I always end up losing the topic of my essay or the overall structure. Choosing route A, which is a written work, could be a beneficial choice for two reasons. First of all, leaving my comfort zone and faced a medium that I know I am not good at. Secondly spending time polishing my writing skills and potentially getting better at it. On the other hand, choosing route B, which is audio paper, will give me the opportunity to work with a medium, which I might not be able to work with again in the future. And secondly, a chance to gain more practice in working and expressing myself in the audio paper, as I have worked with it only once before this academic year for Sound Studies and Aural Cultures unit. After thorough thinking, I have decided to choose Route B since written work was an integral part of my entire school education and I have been working with this communication tool for over a decade. As well for the reason that audio paper is a very new medium, I had a chance to work with it only once in my life, and I am utterly excited about what my final year piece outcome might be. What’s more, I find audio paper one of the best mediums to express my thoughts as instead of explaining someone’s words I can simply use recordings in my work. An audio paper is definitely easier and more approachable, than written work, as I always struggled in expressing my thoughts in words and keeping track of its structure. Lastly and most importantly, I am still at the stage of choosing my accurate final work’s title but I know for sure that it will evolve around sound healing and its affect on our body, and mind. Therefore I think, it wold be waste to not choose medium that allows me to explain, in most accurate way possible, to the listener what sound healing is by including direct examples of healing sounds such as Tibetan bowls and natural sounds.

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