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
Felix Taylor
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
Zhuo Mengting
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
Process
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
Mark Fell, Attack on Silence
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
reflection
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
process 3 – spatialising
‘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
Process 2 – arranging
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
Brakhage
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
Process 1 – mixing
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