URL: https://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~jhr360/audioproject/index.html
For our audio project, Kat and I delegated the work between us such that I worked on the web design while Kat designed the audio. We decided on recording a reading of a poem, “Biography of Southern Rain” by Kenneth Patchen, which Kat then distorted and added other atmospheric sound bytes.
Because our main focus was the audio, I decided to design the website to complement the content of the audio and made the background a gif from the film Garden of Words, which heavily uses rain as a symbol. Since the background and the player are gifs, I decided not to include an author’s bio, as that would have been more distraction from the audio, and I felt that there wasn’t anything more that could add to the website, other than subtitles.
I initially had trouble with the subtitles not appearing, but I was eventually able to resolve my issues. I used the in-class exercises for coding reference.
I wanted to have the background be multiple images that would transition into one another, but I couldn’t find a solution that I understood with my current coding knowledge and decided not to pursue this.
Through this project, I was able to design a website, which I hadn’t done since before the comic project, as I’d been working on content then. I also designed the player in Photoshop and drew the gifs, and it was satisfying to see something I created functioning properly.