“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 …
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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. …
Luciah Chung
No input mixing. Very cool! Luciah spoke about this piece by Jacob Kirkegaard recorded in a swimming pool in Chernobyl.
The politics of background music/noise
Whilst thinking about ‘What is background music’ – which is the working title for my audio paper. I began asking myself questions related to commerce, thinking most notably about my experience in customer service. I have worked most of my twenties in customer service roles which were usually quite busy and I often have this …