Data Analysis_Critical Reflection – Coding Memo_024 27 May 2020. Aaron - Phase 2. Generating initial codes

Data analysis_Critical Reflection_Coding Memo_024- Aaron - Phase 2

Process and flow of coding ideas:

Phase 2: Generating initial codes

Dragging and dropping verbatim extracts into slides and considering potential initial codes. Initial codes considered today:

Discerning temperament

Discerning support

Industrial process as a tool for uniqueness

Capturing time

Familiarity shown in a new light

Active listening is important and a focus

Enjoyment of the senses

Being overwhelmed by expectations

Silence is overwhelming

The shock of scale

Dramatic events cause reflection

Knowing without seeing

Experimentation and new possibilities

Practice representing sight loss

Only certain people understand

Maintaining independence and style of practice, whilst being supported

Eidetic memories are comfortable and efficient

Problems with materials

Making the most of opportunity

Formality does not celebrate or encourage uniqueness

Audio noise levels cause demise

Personal experience of sight loss

Lack of education leads to disrespect

Art galleries do not create respect for sonic tactile pieces

Sight loss as a disadvantage in practice

Security and familiarity of love

Preserving stories and love through practices

Sonic sound is live and current – animating locked and stuck objects or events

Multi-sensory overload

Transcending adversity through practice

Multi-sensory overload can be managed with good staging

Sight loss requires preparation

Celebrating the flaws

Practice revealing sight loss

Sight loss removes independence of practice

Support and assistance

Not seeing the whole

Unawareness and disrespect

Artists not being trained to listen

Interactive sonic landscapes

Art representing sound

Uniqueness

The exotic becoming familiar

Comprehending scale without sight

New experiences shattering expectations

Exotic nature overwhelmingly sublime

Navigation methods

Methods of practice

Weight as integrity

Sight loss as a disadvantage for writing

Restrained dance training removes uniqueness

Drilled robotic people are identical

Unique individuals are easily spotted by gait

Identification of things by gait

Non verbal communication

Understanding nuance without sight

Discernment of surroundings with active listening

Comprehension of disposition and gait

Deliberately different

Sonic practice

Tactile engagement is uncommon in art

Comprehension of imagery without sight

Children are unrestrained

Unrestrained non-robotic, natural practice allows for happy accidents

Not knowing but sensing a pattern

Mystery of light  as a mesmerising focus

General comprehension vs studied focus

Gait vs detail

Repetition and active looking encourages love and familiarity

Sonic dialogue

Future possibilities

Objects telling a story
Illumination and light as a mystical magical experience
The catharsis of personal stories captured in practice
Social objects reminiscent of connection