Month: January 2024

I found this lecture fascinating as even though it was held through zoom it felt so intimate and cozy. She started by questioning what motivates this group to be together leading some exercises where we were told to focus on our breathing for 3 mins think about your journey to arriving here? Then what is… Continue reading Shenece Oretha

Shuhei Hosokawa’s 1981 essay The Walkman Effect We read the article as a class and enquired how we live and interact in a sonic world; about our agency in its auditory design; and how our subjectivity is entrained and formed through listening and sound making.  I found the part where eighteen to twenty two year olds were… Continue reading walkman effect

For this weeks lecture we prepared a presentation on an episode of Sounding History podcast. Episode 6 – Sound Sculpting in East Asia and the American South. Briefly it was about how sound travels and Global Jazz as a genre – the growing networks around the globe (people and labour) Film: Wild Wild Rose (1960)… Continue reading sounding histories podcast

I particularly enjoyed this weeks guest lecture, I think because his work was quite accessible compared to other sound art which can get quite esoteric (not a bad thing). One theme that I saw thread through all his work was that of memory. He started by talking about as he studied a sound engineering course… Continue reading Felix Taylor

I particularly appreciated this lecturer where Zhuo explained the quite abstract and theoretical thought behind her very interesting performance practice. She started by questioning what happens when there is discordance between sonic and visual cues. By hiding what is making the sound she provokes the audience and creates a metaphorical boundary. What if there is… Continue reading Zhuo Mengting

I started with Westerkamp’s Kits Beach Soundwalk as inspiration as I knew I wanted to criticise the dismissal of the city and noise in acoustic ecology thinking. It is almost an audio paper/podcast in itself. Researching around soundscape composition, soundwalking, Westerkamp’s own writings, and criticisms of it I formed a brief essay. I then went… Continue reading Process