Soundwriting Process

• Where are you in your soundwriting process?

1. What’s been done and what’s still left to do?

We are in the last stage of the songwriting process. We recorded our radio show on Thursday and was in between the assigned 20–25 minutes for a co-hosted radio show.

• What are your biggest accomplishments and failures so far?

1. How do you feel about that?

Our biggest accomplishment was over time becoming more confident when we speak. Our biggest failure was probably trying to figure out how to make it sound more natural when we speak. We feel really good about this as it was difficult at times to find a flow in our voices to make it seem natural and not so monotone.

• What have you learned so far?

We have learned how much truly goes into a radio show and the preparation needed. We learned a lot about the poet John Cage and how he used experimental techniques to share a different perspective on poetry.

• What ideas did you grapple with?

1. Which problems have you solved, and which are you continuing to grapple with?

• We were able to solve problems like sounding too much like we were reading off a script which we solved as we got more comfortable with reading it.

1. How might you over come the challenges and struggles?

• We were able to overcome the challenges by reading it more, practicing, more comfortable with the information as this helped us to sound more natural especially when recording the final product.
• What decisions have emerged lately as you plan and work on your project?

We decided that we wanted the radio show to feel more like a conversational podcast to make it seem more interesting and engaging for the listener.

• What is the next step in your composing process?

1. What do you need to do, know, and write?

We are finished with our composing process. All we need to do moving forward is to turn in our radio show both emailing it and submitting on Canvas to Professor Bellflower.

• Walk through the four elements of the rhetorical situation:

1. How are you feeling about your progress toward achieving your purpose?

• We feel good about our progress as we feel we wrote something that will be engaging and easy to listen to from the viewers. We made it a conversational radio show for this reason as we want it to be natural and easy to listen to.

1. How are you feeling about your progress toward affecting your audience?

• We feel that the audience as the audience will be engaged in ours show and how we went about describing the elements that went into the poem along with bringing some personality in it as well.

1. How are you feeling about your progress toward situating your work in time and place of your context?

• We feel good about how we went about explaining John Cage and his interesting poem as has an interesting form. This was by showing how the poem even came to be.

How are you feeling about your progress toward following the expectations of your genre?

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We feel good about how we portrayed the deeper meaning of the poem. We also made sure to incorporate quotes in the poem and also how the interesting structure of John Cage’s poem “Art is a Complaint or Do Something Else” is read and why it looks this way.