Reflecting on the inspiring few days spent in lecture, gig and workshop forms with Audrey and her sound practice I feel as though I have learnt a lot. Although her practice heavily focuses on the voice, her theories on improvisation, stories of working as an artist and the interacting nature of those with just life… Continue reading Audrey Chen
Author: Lucas Yoshimura Wood
Decolonisation and Indigeneity
In the workshop element of our lecture on decolonisation we were tasked with looking into a research resource and presenting it to the class. I chose this short essay by Renata Yazzie on Norient. https://norient.com/renata-yazzie/through-space-and-time She writes about powwow singer Joe Rainey and what music means to indigenous people. (I rather ignorently only learned just… Continue reading Decolonisation and Indigeneity
Angus Carlyle
Throughout the lecture Angus introduced many intresting ideas from his fieldwork practice. The main thread that linked these ideas were his work on field notes. He also talled of writing constraints, the voice and anti sonic exceptionalism. I found his dedication to field note taking a semi journaling/scrapbooking, semi remembering/timestamping particularly impressive. Creating a physical… Continue reading Angus Carlyle
Rie Nakajima
Although from a while ago, I wanted to write about my favourite guest lecture by far (not just cause shes japanese). After the talk/ performane I left feeling a warmth and affirmation from hearing her explain her process and philosophies. Her use of objects (something I would like to get into) motorised and little, and… Continue reading Rie Nakajima
6) arranging
In keeping with the theme of going out of your comfort zone, firstly I used Reaper, a programme I am not particularly familiar with but have been wanting to practice. I found certain aspects such as being able to edit clip properties easily very useful especially for the phasing effect where I chaged playback speeds… Continue reading 6) arranging
5) feedback
Before the work in progress class, I made sure to listen through and sort my field recordings. I layed out all the clips into one track on reaper with the accompaning ambient recording underneath if it had one. I looked out for particularly interesting sounding sections and marked them. I also went and cut unnecissary… Continue reading 5) feedback
4) psychoacoustics
Partly inspired by Lucier and Reich I intend to use the beats and pulses picked up by the soma ether and phase them slightly. Though Lucier played with the acoustic phenomena, I think the ether creates a similar effect. In the inbetween as you point from one source to another the two drone like signals… Continue reading 4) psychoacoustics
3) soma ether
Having just finished the radio module I was even more intrigued by the anti-radio I had not yet tried. Being fairly new to field recording itself I was excited to use something that could scratch the itch for noiser recordings. I have been reading Paul Hegarty’s ‘Noise/Music, A History’ and listening more to artists such… Continue reading 3) soma ether
2) the voice // time
story of a new capable of, I immediately engaged a fine Italian didn’t feel like the language trip reading, hat I danced out flew A miraculous sight A long time passed I remembered slow waning Although at first I struggled with this excercise, in the end I found it to be quite rewarding to think… Continue reading 2) the voice // time
1) graphic score
Was given a blank A4 sheet of paper to create a graphic score. A daunting starting point with so many options, my mind was as blank as what I was staring at. Tata next to me had begun folding his paper so in a somewhat pretentious way to one-up him I began to rip the… Continue reading 1) graphic score