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CSP 4: Re-Developed Concept
After having so much sucess in the student bar we were certain we wanted to make the most of university spaces, and the people, in our project. There is also a second UAL bar at the Central Saint Martins building that we could also use for our project. This did mean we still had to find two other pubs for our…
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CSP 3: Rethinking Interview Techniques
After encountering quite a few issues trying to get interviews for our concept, we had to readjust our approach in order to get as many interviews and, most importantly, pieces of audio as possible within a releativly short period of time. After re-writing our interview questions we went to test them in the university’s student bar. This proved to be an incredibly…
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CSP 2: First Interviews (or Lack of)
We set off to west London to examine our first pub. Arriving in Hampstead for around 4pm we set about finding a good first location, after walking down through Hampstead for around 20 minutes we found a nice ‘old man’s pub that looked like it ticked all the boxes. Creaky wooden floorboards, rows and rows of beer taps and…
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CSP 1: Concept
Our original concept was to review pubs through the medium of sound rather than a traditional written review. We decided to compare and review a pub from each area of London (North, South, East, West) and also evaluate their role within that area as a third spaces and community hubs. We were going to compare the pubs by making recordings…
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Foley Studio Workshop
During our second session we took part in a Foley workshop. We were split into a large group of foley artists and a smaller group of studio engineers (my group). We were tasked with creating; fire sounds, general bar atmosphere and the sound of a zombie’s head being crushed. To record we had a fairly wide selection of microphones, around 5 in total. These…
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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.…