Some very beautiful Sound Art installations outside by Max Eastley on The Wire. Max Eastley seems to be interested in the Aeolian Harp, and their works are reflective of this kind of autonomous, self sustaining sound piece. Each one captivating in its own way, some of the “Kinetic Drawings” remind me of Kinetic Art pioneer …
Author archives: Steve Stonhold
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
These bowls in water are great autogenerated sound art piece, the flowing water disrupts the pool of water, and the different sized ceramic bowls hit each other producing different tones. The guitar piece, is probably one of my first exposures to Sound Art. When I was in College, this was playing at The Barbican. I …
Ben Patterson: Fluxus
“One-sided LP in an edition of 345 copies. “The new Ben Patterson piece, issued on Alga Marghen’s VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches …
Adam Basanta
“Room Dynamics” is a multi-modal, modular composition exploring perceptual and affective states arising from the interactions of dynamic media architectures and the material architectures within which they are embedded. A site-responsive audiovisual architecture marked by 12 points of light and sound – each consisting of an incandescent light bulb and corresponding speaker – bisects the …
Steve Fanagan (Game of Thrones, Normal People)
I watched a talk Jessica recommended through avid with Steve Fanagan. TV Show – consistency in style over the episodes. Normal people – more time than usual for TV show. Requires more organisation due to more hours of film, you end up mixing back to back at the end, working on a film is a …
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Nicholas Becker
Records Foley in acoustic chambers that match the environment of the scene, instead of recording chamber and adding digital approximation of that verb to foley takes in a dampened studio. “Convolution reverbs are amazing but they are not a full and complete model of what’s happening” This is considered the French naturalistic approach to sound …
Andrew Pierre Hart
Stationary sound walk by a bike path. We were asked to put our hands over our ears. “We are speakers and listening devices also” Ben Patterson FLUXUS, Alternative sounds from a piano by destroying it, what does tearing up music sheets mean? Paintings influenced by sounds that are meaningful to Pierre Hart. Like the stone …
Sound For Screen: Sculpting Sound
“We gestate in Sound and are born into sight. Cinema gestated in sight, and was born in sound.” Michel Chion Texts: “Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen” – Michel Chion “In the Blink of an Eye” – Walter Murch “Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the cinema” – Tarkovski “You were never really here” – Paul Davies interview. …
Richard Pheonix
Works for Heart N Soul, a charity which helps disabled artists. We started the session with a stretch courtesy of one of the members of Heart N Soul. Context on Language; Disabled Person, Autistic Person, Person with a learning disability. Social model of disability. The idea that its the environment, society and culture that surrounds …
Cedrik Fermont
When starting up their tape label in Belgium, Fermont struggled to find any tape label communities in Africa, Brazil or the Philippines, set out to create connections through the label of practising sound artists and experimental musicians globally. “Global compilation of noise, improvised & experimental” Tried to find as much music from across the world. …