“Hannah Wallis is an artist, curator and researcher based in the Midlands. Marked by an attention to the boundaries between making, performance, locality, curating and disability rights, Hannah’s practice exists at the intersection of these disciplines; concerned with how visual and performative knowledge production can inform and be informed by collectivisation, collaboration and long-term research …
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Visiting Practitioner: Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
We spoke with Vicki Bennett a couple of months ago, which in the moment of working towards our exhibition shows, I completely forgot to do a follow up write-up from my notes. For the sake of working towards some sort of bio for myself, which may prove useful for my DPS year. Here is the …
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Continued Sound Studies; Constance Classen, Anthropology of The Senses.
In our first lesson with Annie, we broke down what is required from us for the hand in at the end of this module. For this unit, we are developing our own practice and exploring what Sound Art means to us. We have to research a topic of our choice rigorously, internally reflecting based on …
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Visiting Practitioners: Yan Jun
We had a very compelling talk with Yan Jun, he first spoke about his background in performance with a laptop, which he referred to as ‘Table Music’, as there is always a table in front of the performer for their laptop. We were then shown a piece I believe was entitled ‘Table Music’, which took …
Days 3 and 4
Running into difficulty mainly with choice of location for transducer, after trying the resonance of the speaker on various walls and stairs. The best source of resonance was on the floorboards of the hallway downstairs. If I attempted to use the speakers up the stairs where I had intended the piece to sit, it wouldn’t …
Day 2
Transducers are now working better with help from Milo. Using 8Ohm Amplifier for 4Ohm Transducer. There is concern they may overheat and cause speakers to blow. But tests were fine. The sounds will not be constant so perhaps it will not cause a problem. Current plan is stereo recordings I settled on yesterday. L & …
Reflections on Set Up: Day 1
Jotting down notes from today so I don’t have to do it later and to help formalize my thought process. I mixed these down into the sound devices and recorded in stereo. Hoping that I would have the original stems but unfortunately not. However. This can work with the bass rocker transducer speakers. As they …
Proposal for Gallery 46
The concept… For the upcoming show at Gallery 46, I want to utilise covert illusions of presence within the corners of the gallery space. Sound defines the space around us and it subconsciously indicates our distance from objects. The gallery is a social setting with rules and formalities. The presence of bodies in a space …
Soundlands Artist Proposals
Catching up with exercises from the lesson last week. I thought doing this exercise on Soundlands Proposals would be helpful before attempting to write my own. ‘Small group exercise: Review these proposals. Which proposal do you think won the commission? Why? Reflect on this in 300 words in your blog. (Realisation, Process, Communication)’ ‘Berger – …
Reflections on Muzak research
After signing up to an academic papers website during the build up to our audio paper hand in, I am repeatedly receiving new papers related to Muzak & Silence and their intermittency… “Muzak-Plus” was a phrase coined by John Cage, a decade after his mutual parts interest and disgust of Muzak led to an art …