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 →