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 – …
Tag archives: Installation
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 …
Max Eastley
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 …
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 …