Radio Chthulucene 87.9 FM

This project felt like a whirlwind from start to finish and it was a learning experience and one I would love to try again in the future. At the beginning, there were a lot of road bumps when it came to fully understanding the direction I wanted to take with the written piece, and how to make it audibly engaging. There were a lot of ideas that I had and the one that appealed to me the most was centered around praying, which I am glad I stuck with. I believe that a strength in this project is the choice to include another voice apart from mine in it. It works with the translanguaging aspect, and it also gives it more depth. It felt like letting my peers and those on campus into my family life, and transcending beyond an “assignment” into a deeper reflection of how I see myself and the fears I have, and it is one I know many others can relate to. I also ultimately enjoyed the location of the radio, and I consider it a strength to its contents , however on the walkthrough I realized that it was a bit far away and not in a huge populated area of campus. When it came to planning this project, this is where the weaknesses came in. I realize now that the timeline was very relaxed in my mind when it should have caused a bit more alarm. I did not have a set location until the last week of May, I took a while to get around to calling my Tio, I could have spent more time with the creative direction of the audio, because it felt like it was lacking. I added some distortion, and the song, but I felt like there could have been so much more. I wish I added more ambience and transitioning, especially to make it feel like more of a prayer and moving between realms.

For future directions, I would love to make more of my work exist in the audio world. I loved how personal this was, and I can see doing a collection of prayers. It would be nice for a project like this one to be exhibited in a church, because that would be the perfect home for the emotions of shame, love, acceptance, and the unknown.