I am enjoying the sculptures of Alexander Calder who I have just discovered through Open Culture. There is a freedom of movement in his sculptures, multiple axis that interact in a unpredictable way, there is freedom to the movements, away from conventional practical design, yet they are still bound to those laws. Alexander Calder was …
Author archives: Steve Stonhold
FetHead = clean audio/reduced noisefloor
After purchasing my Tascam DR-40X for field recording, I am hoping to build a large array of field recordings and samples of sound for a rich bank to start professional freelance work as a sound designer/sound editor/recording. I found some very useful youtube channels for in depth reviews of recording equipment, and found a unbiased …
Exploring Radio Dramas
I really enjoyed this radio show hosted by Orson Welles, the juxtaposition of dramatic piercing strings. There are SFX throughout, the sounds of Orson picking up the objects. Also there is a hall reverb on the vocals when shifting to the characters in the drama. The sound effects do a great job of punctuating points …
Broadcasting The Collaborative Sound Work
We will be using B.U.T.T (Broadcast Using This Tool) to broadcast our collaborative sound work. We are broadcasting through the I.P of Locus Sonus. I found this process quite easy due to my experience recording sound on my computer through DAWs. I have often had to record signal from my computer’s sound card for radio …
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Field Recording for Collaborative Sound Work
In the early process of developing our theme, we have decided to experiment. With Jake And Buki working with words. Kiro said there was theme of Earth. We talked about exploring the elements and due to my being situated by the Sea in Brighton currently. I set out to record some ocean sounds on my …
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Exploring Modern Radio #2
Whilst RADIOPHRENIA had existed before the pandemic, it seemed at the time to be a perfectly executed response to the gig-less world we are currently occupying. It has an ephemeral quality, in the sense there was a timetable, and you could tune in 24/7 for 2 weeks and hear a piece. It’s free to listen, …
Exploring Modern Radio #1
How has Radio dealt with the change from FM to Digital? Now we have internet based radio stations, what does the terminology mean now? How does it differ from a Podcast? What is Pirate Radio? NTS Radio is an internet radio station. An internet radio station, uses an IP Address to stream a web-broadcast (webcasting). …
“Fishing For Sound” – Ryuichi Sakamoto
I watched CODA, two years ago on a day off. I had been working in customer service, very drained from a busy week. I went to an afternoon screening with a fellow Sakamoto admirer. The film follows him as he recovers from throat cancer and potentially goes about creating his final album, ‘Async’. He draws …
Ocean Waves and Distant Thunders – asmr (Released December 2020)
Since before starting University, I have been working on a collaborative new-age project inspired by Hiroshi Yoshimura, Iasos and Wally Badarou. The idea was to get out of a creative slump myself and a friend were in as we mostly work solo and are not the greatest collaborators. We felt an instrumental new-age project was …
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Visiting Lecture Series #2 Lisa Busby
Lisa Busby gave a talk during our visiting lecture series, here is a quote from her website. “Lisa Busby is a Scottish composer, vocalist, and improviser based in London. Situated across experimental music, performance art, and pop song, her practice often utilises the found and the prosaic, and manifests in various entangled modes – long-duration …