Christian Marclay's "Telephones" features footage of phones ringing, people answering phones, waiting on the phone, talking, and hanging up. What sounds like a continuous sound piece but when you look at the image, it is discontinuous. The purpose is to show how repetitive films are and show how standard actions are preformed similarly. This piece emphasizes and frames the differences between sound and image. We hear these sounds in a daily basis, but we are so focused on the visual culture, we begin to block out certain sounds and choose what we want to hear. I think it is for this reason, the phase 3 project tries to shift the focus back to sound.
Another aspect to sound is the tension between the performer and the audience, in the example by Max Neuhaus (in the previous blog) the performer is the audience too. At first, it is a solo performance, but then as more people called in to the radio station whose voice is remixed, it becomes a collaborative performance and the performer is forced to take the role of the audience as well.
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