Reading Response: one “No direct connection”
I don’t see a direct connection with these readings and writing studies. Outside from using an iPod as a medium to store text like “monstrous … forty eight-hour recordings of Harry Potter” (Levy 230), the iPod really does not affect the way we write. Although the iPod has “moved Tectonic plates” (Levy 254), it is primary associated with music. The same is true for Flaming lips the discipline it affects is music. Its technological innovation with boombox concerts and use of audio technology are keep with in the multimedia music remix technologies.
The only connection I saw with sound and writing was the Heidi Mckee article. The incorporation of sound into the webtext (if used correctly) added to multimodal compositions. Sound and text are manipulated so that both elements complimented each other to produce the final product. So in certain multimedia webtexts a partnership can be made with sound and text to create a profound multimedia experience. For example, the poem Winter Lyric used images, text, and sound to create the mood and tone of the poem (Mckee 345). In this case, “Music was used in conjunction with other elements of sound”(346). However, this multimodal applications do not change writing studies; they only influence webtext.
Jimmy Martell
