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Phenomenological Analysis-One True Authentic Swing

0-14-Clip starts with the sound of crickets, frogs, and owls for bout four seconds. It sound of night time but very light (as in not heavy), and clear. Footsteps can also be heard. They are light, and sound to be hitting the grass. Once the voices appear, first a man with a southern accent. The voice is confident but not overpowering. Gentle and knowing. About 10 seconds in, a strain is heard in the voice as if he was bending over. The younger voice is curious sounding.

15-31-The sounds of night grow louder and another voice appears, out of the scene narrating. It sounds like the voice of an old man. Also gentle and with a light southern accent on it. In the background, besides the noises of the night, you can still hear the boy counting.

32-1:07-First 4 seconds are once again just the sounds of the night, except this time a new type of bird chirping has entered beside the owl crickets and frogs. The man’s (not the old one’s) voice resumes, quiet and subtle at first. His statements/directions are followed by the sound of a golf putter hitting a ball. Then after nothing the voice keeps talking. Confident and steady. It’s then followed by a few seconds of just the night again. Throughout this whole section in general, the sound seems to be in a pattern of the night and voice, the night, voices, etc.

1:08-1:22-The man’s voice enters once again but this his talking isn’t just confident and steady, it has contour. A little rough at first, his voice then grows solid and retreats once again.

1:23-1:41-Again, the man’s voice enters soft and a little bit broken. Although interrupted by a question from the younger voice, the man’s voice reenters at a higher pitch and retreats maintaining the contour, the breathlike pattern. Meanwhile under this dialogue the sound of the night changes. It seems to have retreated as well and there is a distant sounding groan. Very earthlike and rooted.

1:42-2:04-Music rises out of the groan of the earth. The sound of another put happens and then as the music is definitely in its place the man resumes talking once again. Although a confident voice, it also still has contour, but with a shorter distance of beginning and end. The music seems to represent this building and then sighing, building and sighing without a center creating what seems to be a sense of an unknowing aura, or mystic.

2:04-2:44-Flute begins to come out more strengthening the contour of the aligning voice and music. The sound of the earthen groan also continues to make an appearance sounding like wind through a dense wood of trees.

2:45-3:25-The tensing and resolving sighs of the music envelope the scene like waves on a shore relentless and beautiful. The contoured voice of the man begins to do the same. It is layered subtly, so subtly it’s difficult to even notice at first and seems like it’s that natural course for the voice, on top of itself. Dreamlike or like the dialogue and music have lulled the listener into a trance. As this grows and continues the music becomes more and more prominent until at the end of the sequence the voice becomes singular again and we once again hear the sound of the putter hitting the ball.

3:25-3:30- As the ball enters the cup, the music slowly fades into the night once again.

3:30-3:47-This last portion consists mainly of the night sounds, feet walking on grass, dialogue, and the sound of metal being picked up or moved around as the clip fades.