Jennifer Brookes: tangled; we weave is on the brink of its halfway point, which is kind of incredible if you think about it. It began in the stead of an interest in any and all forms of documentation, and it shows as the weeks pass. For me, these videos chronicle the first 8 months of my life in a new city. This project serves as a great archive of all different places that I’ve experienced here in Seattle, but most of my videos do a poor job of indicating real human, bona fide feeling. This week seems to capture some of that lacking authenticity. Thanks to my roommate and friend, Nikki, for folding paper airplanes slowly enough for me to capture the process on camera.

Eric Peterson: Have you ever been to a concert and heard that ear piercing squeal every once in awhile? That’s called feedback, and it happens when the sound being captured by an open microphone gets sent through an amplifier, projected out by speakers, then picked up again by the microphone, creating an exponentially increasing feedback loop. There are a lot of ways it can happen and one of the main responsibilities of a live sound engineer is to mitigate it. Guitars can feedback too, but instead of the diaphragm of a microphone vibrating, the body of the guitar vibrates at self-reinforcing frequencies, causing the strings to vibrate with ever increasing intensity. Sometimes, they squeal, but more often, they hum, rumble, or whine; it’s almost always a more pleasant and gradual sound than microphone-related feedback. This week’s piece is built on top of three guitars feeding back, to show that even mellow sounds can be built from that ear piercing squeal.