As I am starting to think of mixing I am questioning my use of multichannel sound. How can I make use of it in the best way? Does it need to be in multichannel? I am quite set on sticking to simple sounds (clicks, sines, breaths), which I have failed last year ending up with… Continue reading Yes yes, but why?
Year: 2022
A Thousand Words for Weather
A series of sound installations across three floors at the the Senate House Library, born as a collaboration between the library and Artangel. It explores weather as both local and global phenomena, the connection between the environment, language, sound and silence. Instigated by writer Jessica J. Lee who worked with a group of other UK-based… Continue reading A Thousand Words for Weather
Concatenative Synthesis
In this interview Florian Hecker discusses some of his influences and hints at some of the processes he may be using. The main influences I took away were Iannis Xenakis and Curtis Roads. The synthesis method mentioned is the stochastic synthesis attributed to Iannis Xenakis which involves playing samples of a sound in a randomized… Continue reading Concatenative Synthesis
Sound Arts Lecture Series (Week 6) – Adam Basanta
artist/ experimental composer from a rock music background; Works with real-time sound, reticent to what it means to record a sound. Interested in space separation uses ready-mades, interested in technology (entanglement)? The Loudest Sound In the Room Experienced Very Quietly -loudness as a conceptual sound experience as opposed to physical sound experience. A Room Listening… Continue reading Sound Arts Lecture Series (Week 6) – Adam Basanta
Ghosts and Hauntology
Some notes and discussion around the essay ‘Digital Ghosts’: Voice and Migratory Hauntings, written by Nermin Saybasili. There are a lot of ideas on the audio visual, how images and sound work together, but for now I’m just going to focus on the ‘ghosts’. The first few pages focus on the viewpoint I am looking… Continue reading Ghosts and Hauntology
Performativity?
I have been encountering this word a lot. ‘ an expression or utterance that does not just describe or represent an action in language but actually performs or activates something’ ‘performance as a mode of being in the world radically differs from representational forms of knowledge. In general, representation assumes a split between the representation,… Continue reading Performativity?
Envelope Extraction?
I have been thinking of possible ways of achieving the effect Florian Hecker is using in Chimeras on the voice tracks. Borrowing one sound’s envelope and lending it to another sound. I’m thinking it might be something I could use either in my audio paper when speaking about the bilingual brain or in the spatialisation… Continue reading Envelope Extraction?
The Acoustic Mirror, Kaja Silverman
The notion that cinema is able to deliver “real” sounds is an extension of that powerful Western episteme, extending from Plato to Hélène Cixous, which identifies the voice with proximity and the here and now—of a metaphysical tradition which defines speech as the very essence of presence. (p.43) fetishistic value which a surprising number of… Continue reading The Acoustic Mirror, Kaja Silverman
Composing with Absent Sound
Otoacoustic emissions are something I have been interested in for a long time, ever since discovering the work of Maryanne Amacher. Engaging the ear in such a way that it starts producing its’ own music is something that would suit the theme of embodiment I am looking into these days. It also interests me from… Continue reading Composing with Absent Sound
The Mastery of Movement, Rudolf Laban
‘High economy of effort makes movement look almost effortless. This applies also to voice-producing movements, heard but not seen.’ (p.6)