Few notes to look into from class: David Toop ASMR unsound Lily Greenham Lingual Music – Outside Observational Mode – Salome – Resilience Jaap Blonk – Sunday Crunch
Year: 2022
More Errors
To be able to use and adjust the plug ins while listening in multichannel (as well as using Ableton with Envelop) I tried connecting the octophonic ring speakers to my own laptop through a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20. Mistake. The interface comes with a driver and its’ own mixer with output routing. Besides the fact that… Continue reading More Errors
WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR
Design Museum exhibition dedicated to the phenomena of ASMR. The middle of the room is a carpeted (shoes off) area with half-walls built out of skin colour pillows. This area contained a lot of what they call ‘unintentional ASMR’, which is something I was unaware of before this exhibition. Videos of people performing laborious tasks… Continue reading WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR
Body Politics
‘I am not interested in fetishizing myself’ -artist rather than muse War Mop – kinetic installation – TV playing war footage – women expected to fix damage -heavily influenced by Antonin Artaud -being the artist and the artistic object at the same time? -searched for music in her early paintings, creating kinetic paintings (influenced by… Continue reading Body Politics
Trials – Errors
In this post I will talk a bit of what I have tried so far. I have been gathering sounds that could pass as ASMR-ish/pleasurable. DPA microphones: stroking hair with microphone taped to neck; nails on carpet; tape on microphone foam; ink pen scratches on paper. Mubu for Max – Concatenative Synthesis – similar to… Continue reading Trials – Errors
British Library Sound Archive
The highlight for me was seeing wax cylinders and being able to understand how they work. I encountered them last year looking into the recordings of Constantin Brailoiu and they stayed a mystery to me until now. During the studios tour, Karl, the sound archivist (/sound engineer?) mentioned he was working on some english speech… Continue reading British Library Sound Archive
More Organic Popping Candy
Watching some of the most popular ASMR videos on Youtube one thing stands out. They all use cheap microphones. Besides that, the microphone is often touched to produce the sound, which makes the resulting sound at least partly distortion. It is interesting to me then how the sounds people listen to for this sense of… Continue reading More Organic Popping Candy
Katalin Ladik
Holly Herndon – voice-body, sousveillance
I have been searching for ASMR references within sound art. This article on Holly Herndon is one of the few I managed to find so far. I was familiar with her work before but never really went in detail in my research. The article speaks of the body – technology dynamic in the digital ‘post-human’… Continue reading Holly Herndon – voice-body, sousveillance
Cold Meridian
This 7 minute short ‘blends voyeurism, hair washing and dance as it dives into the strange, sensual pleasures of sonic textures’. (Mubi) The repeated rituals of an online performer have a transfixing effect on her viewers, in this short exploration of sensual audio visual stimulation. What starts as an exploration of tactility, addiction and control… Continue reading Cold Meridian