research journal (MA and beyond)
printing experimentation: i had a great day printing in London in Artichoke Print Studio, where i worked through the process of mono-printing and image transfer printing. these are great processes to continue in my studio as they do not involve chemical baths and although we used a printing press, they could also be done through... Continue Reading →
fast forward a few centuries! sound making today Golan Levin's Telesymphony: a composer who was inspired to use cellular phones. during performances he would call the audiences phones and they would ring creating the music composition. Marek Choloniewski and Jeremy Wood: a Polish composer who based his composition on the car drawings of Wood. here he used... Continue Reading →
the sound of the net: what is the sound of the net and what can we do with it? consider these elements - glitches, jitter, feedback, latency. Kim Cascone: an electronic musicians and wrote the text 'the aesthetics of failure', describing how sometimes the most interesting things often happen by accident. the speed of the... Continue Reading →
world music: what does it mean? the term came about when trying to market Paul Simon's Graceland in the 1980s. its a commercial term and erases differences from around the world - all bundled together under this term. world music 2.0: with the increasing availability of recording and music making equipment, people start to make... Continue Reading →
hungry listening: sounds connected to consumerism so listening could be looked at in terms of colonialism and consumerism. many decolonial thinkers insist that we cannot only think of the human in this regard - the human is part of nature and produces an anti-western mindset. taking the sole focus off the human is central to... Continue Reading →
listening as practice: some key artists include - Pauline Oliveros: founder of the deep listening institution. for Oliveros deep listening was a way to extend the ways the ears function, believing that you listening not just with your ears but with your entire body. R. Murray Shafer: for him listening was political. in his essay... Continue Reading →
filming: i decided to get out in the river again and continue filming. my section now takes me past Kiltipper towards Old Bawn. I had to hop over a gate on two occasions to access the river on both sides, but it seems others also do this for some 'anti-social' activities by the looks of... Continue Reading →
transitional spaces: these are in between spaces, liminal spaces - harbours, stations, corridors, usually have background sound or 'furniture sound' or music. the habitual listener only notices differences rather than monotonous sounds. airports: Brian Eno called this discreet music - music that is just meant to occupy the background, without too much feeling or emotion... Continue Reading →
recap: examples of sound art exploration includes 'I am Sitting in A Room' by Alvin Lucier where the room becomes a composer as it effects the frequencies generated. also, art/sound installations by Bernhard Leitner looks at sound as an architectural material, as sound gives you a complete sense of space/room - through sound the sense... Continue Reading →
how and why sound travels: the movement of people is the key drive about the evolvement of sound. the migration of people from rural life to urban life generates and evolves sound experience and production. it also allows sound and music to develop from different cultural origins. e.g. southern Moroccan group 'Archach', where the song... Continue Reading →
scores: scores can take many forms - e.g. text score, e.g. a little yellow book called 'grapefruit' by Yoko Ono. some are short and read like a poem which the viewer/reader can imagine and hear in their head. others have instructions which are the score for the piece - a set of instructions for a... Continue Reading →
experiments in sound: I took a recording of water dripping sound, and played with two different speeds playing against each other which run concurrently and sychronise at times and at other times do not, creating a rhythm of its own - an obvious nod to 'Steve Reich is Calling. I also played with layering different... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 