Month: November 2023

Mark Fell (b.1966) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rotherham. He studied film and video art at Sheffield Polytechnic and is part of the glitch dj duo snd. Attack on Silence (2007) is an audiovisual performance and installation work using video projection and multichannel sound. Merging his practices in experimental electronic music, computer science, philosophy… Continue reading Mark Fell, Attack on Silence

There are many ways in which I would have liked to compose this piece differently, being able to stick to my original idea or just have more time to create a more polished version. However what I want to focus on here is critiques of the actual outcome I ended up with. I don’t think… Continue reading reflection

‘He adopts a “flat” medium, but displays a flurry of lights to seemingly expand it into the third dimension.’ (https://artelectronicmedia.com/en/artwork/thunder/) – This quote represents my thinking behind why I chose this film to make a spatialised sound piece to. His awareness of space and how he uses photography and light to in his artistic process… Continue reading process 3 – spatialising

I firstly dragged my long clips of improvised no-input mixer into a new Reaper session as well as importing a silent version of the film. I had gone through the film and added markers where I thought significant events occurred visually such as a change of space, a turn, a pace change, a new element,… Continue reading Process 2 – arranging

Stan Brakhage was an American avant-garde filmmaker born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1933. He made over 300 films using many different techniques but is perhaps most notable for his work directly with celluloid film. He would paint, scratch, stick things to, heat up the physical rolls of frames to achieve a so called untutored… Continue reading Brakhage

I mainly used my Alto mixer by itself and with a digital delay/pitch shifter micro effect rack; Fuzz factory, bass clone, Wah, poly octave and two cheap mini reverb pedals. No input is essentially when you patch an output of a mixer or anything really back into its own input. This creates a feedback loop… Continue reading Process 1 – mixing

Proposition: I intend to make a spatialised piece on the octophonic ring using this Takashi Ito experimental short film as inspiration/content. Its unique rotating POV and experimental, flashing techniques such as long exposure and stop motion particularly piqued my interest as I thought it lends well to my interest in no-input mixing noise. I intend… Continue reading Thunder, Ito Takashi

Our group (George, Louie, Lucas) got together to continue recording some foley sound for the opening scene of We need to talk about Kevin by Lynne Ramsay (2011). We had previously marked with empty clips the exact points of where each sound event occurred. These included: footsteps (different for inside and outside the house, and… Continue reading Foley

For our first sound for screen session we went outside to take note of the sonic environment and atmospheres around LCC specifically the small green space and playground, St Marys churchyard by the main road. We were told to consider: Distance, frequency, height Atmosphere / singularity Text / images Abstract / real How we could… Continue reading mapping

I chose to watch this film as I have recently been getting into Iranian cinema, specifically Kiaorastami of course. Samira Makhmalbaf’s Blackboards is told in a similar style, one that I now assume is typical of this generation of Iranian filmmakers. It is somewhat hard to describe but a sort of humanist approach to what… Continue reading Blackboards dir. Samira Makhmalbaf