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Elephant and Castle Sound Walk
As part of my Introduction to Sound Arts unit, I went on a soundwalk around the Elephant and Castle area. A soundwalk is a specific exercise where you walk around a specific area paying attention to the sounds of your surroundings, its important (obviously) to complete a soundwalk in silence. A soundwalk can also be completed…
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Graeme Miller’s Linked
I paid a visit to Linked in Leytonstone. Linked is a work by London based artist Graeme Miller. In 1999 the M11 link road was built, in order to build this road 400 homes had to be demolished, and Graeme’s happened to be one of them. Linked is a series of radio transmitters fitted to…
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Audio Fundamentals Project Part 6, ‘Composing’ and Completing this Sound Study:
I started with a base of wind and general atmosphere. To make this I selected the best sections of my field recordings and placed them directly after each other in the Ableton timeline window. As they are individual sections of chopped up audio, their beginnings and endings are very abrupt, often making a clicking or…
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Audio Fundamentals Project Part 5, Recording and Selecting the Spoken Text
The text that I chose to read were extracts from a bird watching guide. I first thought of using the guide when making my field recordings from inside a bird hide, a bird hide obviously being a space purpose built for birdwatching. Inside the bird hide there was an information board with posters displaying the…
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Audio Fundamentals Project Part 4, Sound Study vs Soundscapes and Music:
One of my key aims for my first year of studying Sound Arts is to develop my practice within the discipline Sound Arts specifically. As I come from a musical background in regards to sound, I feel that it is important that I outline some key differences between Sound Arts and music for this project.…
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Audio Fundamentals Project Part 2, Recording:
Now that I have decided on what place I am conveying, and that I am creating a sound study that uses field recordings of said place. I need to make some field recordings. So, on a slightly rainy afternoon, I went down to the reserve to take some recordings. I used Tascam X-6 portable recorder…
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Audio Fundamentals Project Part 3, Evaluating and Cleaning up My Recordings
As is often the case with field recordings, the bulk of what I had recorded wasn’t brilliant. Certainly not good enough to be used in my final project anyway. The process of cleaning up field recordings is somewhat tedious, I started with listening to all my recordings in full, in case there were any hidden…
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Audio Fundamentals Project Part 1, What am I making?
For my Audio Fundamentals assignment, I have been asked to produce a sound study responding to the theme of “A sense of place” this sound study also needs to include a vocal recording of a spoken text. The first thing I need to do in order to complete this assignment is decide what I am…
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Audio Fundamentals Project Part 7, Evaluation
My aim for this work was to convey a sense of place through the medium of a sound study. I feel that I was able to create a sound study that conveys a sense of place, this place specifically being a local nature reserve. I made a base using recordings of wind, water and the…
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A Visit to Longplayer
On the 20th of October I visited Trinity Buoy Wharf, the base for Jem Finer’s ‘Longplayer’. Longplayer is a composition by Jem Finer that will last 1000 years, it began on December 31st 1999 and will end 1000 year on in 2999. Longplayer is played on Tibetan singing bowls and uses a series of rules to ensure the piece keeps playing and never repeats. The…