Author: Maria Grigoriu

Nyokabi Kariuki

Sound artist, performer and musician primarily working with her voice and field recordings. The tracks that stood out to me were Quiet Face and Feeling Body. The aspect that appealed to me in Feeling Body is the use of domestic sounds, like dishwashing. This is something I experimented with during the first year and something… Continue reading Nyokabi Kariuki

Introduction Cat

We decided to change the plan for the introduction. As previously mentioned, one of the suggestions given to us during the last crit session was including a brief introduction to make the aim clearer to the player. Instead of having a separate scene, we are going to place a cat in the main hub. The… Continue reading Introduction Cat

Performer/Sound Poet

A big part of my research this semester went into extended vocal technique performers. There seem to be two threads: avant-garde sound poets examples: Francoise Duphrene and Henri Chopin extended vocal technique Cathy Berberian is often accredited as the pioneer (she came from an opera singing background) other examples include Diamanda Galas, Joan La Barbara,… Continue reading Performer/Sound Poet

Bye Bye Butterfly

‘early experiments with tapemusic in pieces such as Bye Bye Butterfly(1965), which morphs and manipulates aloop taken from Giacomo Puccini’s operaMadama Butterfly (1904) through a delaysetup. In this pioneering feminist work,the operatic voice emerges as horrificallywounded, sinister and damaged, presenting,as Oliveros puts it, a ‘farewell not only tothe music of the nineteenth century butalso to… Continue reading Bye Bye Butterfly

Jennifer Walshe

Her work with machine learning can be separated in two categories: real and speculative. I will be discussing the two ‘real’ AI works Ultrachunk (2018) and ‘Anthology or Early Music, Vol. 1 (2020). Ultrachunk is a live vocal performance featuring the neural network GRANMA developed by Memo Akten. The neural network has been trained throughout… Continue reading Jennifer Walshe

Archaic Oceanic Fantasy

‘the female voice, by contrast with the male’s, ‘is incapable of sounding natural without a visible body. By virtue of its inherent ‘inadequacy’, it is as if the female voice clamors for cannibalism, for an alien body, for pulpy, heavy mouths just waiting to devour. According to Adorno, the female voice requires a supplemental body.’… Continue reading Archaic Oceanic Fantasy

Whale and bone bells

Some of the sounds I made for this collaboration. Whale Sound The sound was made with a combination of Ableton’s Operator (sinewave) and Native Instruments Micro Prism. Both of these were played and pitch bent, and later layered and ran through reverb. The intention was for the music to stop playing once the right melodic… Continue reading Whale and bone bells

Serra’s Examples

Keiichi Matsuda’s – Hyper-Reality Augmented Reality experience on media saturation. Plays with physicality/virtuality. Final Stage – Showdown At The Lake House |Real-time performance| Studio Visit: Stages One, Two, Three, & Final” is a semi-satirical walk through the Rolfes virtual performance methodology; a fake Let’s Play that pulls apart the motion capture, VR puppetry, and dramaturgy… Continue reading Serra’s Examples

Vapors

affections vaporeuses = vaporous ailments – referring to air transmitted diseases such as hysteria ‘For Pomme conditions of suffering, convulsion and paralysis are all caused by a hardening of fibres related to a dryness of the body.’ – Citation and Distortion: Pierre Pomme,Voltaire and the Crafting of a Medical Reputation The term ‘vapors’ was used… Continue reading Vapors