Looking into possible avenues around background music. Looking into sources that could speak negatively about the commodification or commercialisation of background music but finding more far out stuff criticising ambient artworks in modern times, as ambience being seen as ‘nice’ – and this therefore being a problem for curation in our modern times. Asking the …
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Visiting Practitioner Rebecca Lennon
BIO “An artist based in London, Rebecca Lennon works across media including video, text, performance, sound and music to think about and play with the non-linear shapes and rhythms of the voice, memory and the speaking body. Exhibiting internationally, across contemporary art and experimental music platforms, radio and recently, publishing, Rebecca graduated from the Slade …
Radio Research
Researching companies I might try and apply for if I am successful with DPS. I found Reduced Listening, thus this particular show created for BBC4. ‘The End Of The World Has Already Happened”. Great piece by Anna Peaker featured on the soundtrack. I really like this particular type of radio production, conversations with clear environments …
Solaris Clip 1#
The scene I was thinking of using from Solaris is the ‘Levitation Scene’. I think that the whole 6 minutes clip might be a lot of work considering the detail I would like to put in. So I am thinking that I will choose either the first 3 minutes of the clip or the last …
Field Recording: Room Tone
On Tuesday, I took a bunch of recordings around the Sound Arts rooms before close. I took close recodings by getting close up to humming elements in the room with my TASCAM DR 40X. This included; a computer, two radiators and and the water dispensor in the hall. I also took a sound recording of …
Field Recording: Lewes
I initially planned to go outside of Lewes to Southease, away from towns by the river that runs through Lewes. Unfortunately I had some other things to do in the morning last sunday and a few trains were cancelled, so in fear of recording in the dark I didn’t stray too far down a countryside …
Field Recording Trip to Glynde
I forgot to take pictures of my expedition to Gylde aside from this strange church. I ran into a few problems on this particular trip. I discovered on location that the Roland Binaurals were not compatible with my TASCAM DR-40x and that I needed to book out a zoom to use those. I also was …
Aural Cultures: Podcast Research.
I listened to Sounding Out, Sound Matters and Crucial Listening, each podcast was very different in style and approach. Sounding Out had quite an academic tone and structured essay layout. Sound Matters was a personally led documentary about someone’s attachment to the sound of a lake. Crucial Listening casual interview style. Here is the bio …
Sound Studies and Aural Cultures
For our Sound Studies and Aural Cultures unit, we are writing a podcast about a chosen topic to do with contemporary issues in sound art. This will help us develop a critical awareness when investigating our chosen subjects. Sound Memory? What perspective cultural capital do we bring consciously or unconsciously to the forefront? Who am …
Quadraphonic Sound
Francis Ford Coppola was apparently influenced by Tomita’s use of Quadraphonic sound when asking him to originally do the soundtrack for Apocalypse Now, wanted a synthesiser rendition of Gustav Holst’s ‘The Planets’. Instantly I am reminded of Wendy Carlos’ work with Kubrick and the heavy use of synthesiser renditions of classical music in their collaborations. …