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Field recording is an element of Sound Art I am really drawn to and hopefully I can build these skills into a practice for employment in my coming DPS year. With Field Recording, you can’t really expect anything… Which is part of the fun, but like Ben Burtt has explained whilst talking about Sound Design …
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Starting to think about how to approach the sound design for our Collaboration Project with Games Design. This video about the sound design for ‘Animal Crossing’ on the Nintedo Switch, is a great example of how in depth something as simple as sounds for menu design can be. What I find very interesting about the …
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Digesting these topics surrounding Theosophy and Subsequently New Age, I was interested in developing a kind of sound equivalent to a thoughtform. I took the literal definition from the spiritual plane in Theosophy. Blavatasky referred to the spiritual plane as ‘almost liquid’. I thought about how Besant asigned colours to certain emotions, seeing all these …
I really liked Pamela Z’s work. Interesting abstract implication of composition, performance and scoring. Baggage Allowance This performance was part of a multi-media exhibition including a website which has now lost functionality with Web 2.0 due to flash becoming extinct I’ve seen this kind of technology before famously used by Imogen Heap. A lot of …
Thoughtforms: A Record in Clairvoyant Investigation, was repressed by Sacred Bones records, in 2021. This was quite a shock to me. As I had seen these pictures from a blogspot 10 odd years ago and it influenced a tape release I did in my early 20s, purely from the standpoint of the striking imagery. Here …
From Iasos’ bandcamp “The Angels of Comfort are the carriers and distributors of a golden-pink energy called the Comfort Flame – an energy specifically created to bring comfort to all Life, wherever it is needed. This energy was created when humanity began experimenting with free will in a manner wherein they began creating discomfort for …
In reference to Iasos’ ideas of a ‘Law of Octaves’ are based of Anthroposophist thought. In the chapter “The Esoteric World of Sound and Research into Harmonics”… Hamel talks about ‘The World Monochord’ a single string instrument created by the Pythagoreans to measure harmonics. “The interval between sun and earth produces a ‘diapason materialis’, the …
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The following are some quotable passages from book ‘Why I became A Theosophist’, I am interested in her use of the term ‘vibration’ in relation to thought. As Vibration is so intrinsic with sound. Except for atomic types of vibration like light particles. Hearing besant use the terminology Audition and ‘Clairaudience’ is fascinating also. It …
I think it’s important to discuss Spiritual Narcissism, whilst on the topic of New Age philosophy and subsequently Theosophy and Anthroposophy. When describing Thoughtforms, Besant lays out a colour chart, which attaches certain colours to thoughts, following a set of criteria. In Thoughtforms, Besant begins to outline the difference between the thoughtforms of a ‘man …
“It hits you, but you feel no pain – instead, pleasure. This is is the visceralexperience of audition, immersed in auditory volumes, swimming in a sea ofsound, between cliffs of speakers towering almost to the sky, sound stackedupon sound” Julian Hendriques – Thinking Through Sound In the opening pages of the text Annie set for …