Comments on: Interview with Patrick Shen

By: In Pursuit of Silence, Interview with Director Patrick Shen | Sonic Terrain

In Pursuit of Silence, Interview with Director Patrick Shen | Sonic Terrain — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:51:30 +0000

[…] In an article about the film, Tim Prebble asks: “what does it actually mean to ‘get used to’ living & existing in a relentlessly busy, noisy environment?” And probably that’s one of the main purposes of this film, to find routes about that concern of desensitizing towards our surrounding environments, and how silence, as an activity, can help on getting us into some kind of balance. It can be as paradoxical as we want, but the truth is, that if we’re silent, we will understand what this is all about. It is not about pursuing a concept or definition, but about making ourselves aware of several issues that are surrounding us all the time, and since many years ago, elders, monks, artists, researchers, etc have been leading to it, often using silence as a metaphor for peace and liberation, as Shen also does, when asked about his own definition of silence in an interview at Designing Sound: […]

By: In Pursuit | Music of Sound

In Pursuit | Music of Sound — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:20:35 +0000

[…] UPDATE: there is an interesting interview with the director here […]

By: In Pursuit of Silence | Designing Sound

In Pursuit of Silence | Designing Sound — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:28:13 +0000

[…] on Kickstarter. The initial campaign was early production funding. We then had the opportunity to interview the director, Patrick Shen, while he was in the middle of production and get a glimpse into the progress of the […]

By: ChrisLinder

ChrisLinder — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:26:36 +0000

‘Personally, I think it sounds pretty crappy. It’s a mess of noise, mostly unintentionally pumped into our environments and penetrating our ear canals against their will.’

I could not agree more!

Some weeks ago I had a job where we recorded a short scene, at the airport in Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
On this day I realised how crappy some places can sound.
I am used to noisy environments and some of them actually can sound beautiful, but this space had a very unpleasant mix of sounds , and I was glad when we finally left the building.

On the other hand the central train station here, has a very pleasant sound, although it’s even louder there.