Author: Maria Grigoriu

Man Is a Sound Chamber

‘From radios to telephones, phonautographs to speaking machines, modernity opened up a space for a range of vocal coordinates defined by electronic imagination.’ [1] Sound poetry, later developed into Lettrism and Ultra-Lettrism, operated on two main ideas: 1. the attempt to come to terms with scientific and technological development, the humanisation of the machine, the… Continue reading Man Is a Sound Chamber

Look Who’s Talking

One of the topics I am considering in my audio paper is the relationship between the voice and technology. The desire to mimic the human voice. How it influences what we think of as synthetic/natural. What we deem as immediate/mediated. We speak a lot of the digital voice. Assigned to the introduction of the internet.… Continue reading Look Who’s Talking

Beyond the Mother Tongue

 study reveals that the central motivation behind this phenomenon was not simply practical but also tied up with what the women consistently articulated as “desire” and “longing” (akogare) for a different female existence: “the turn to the foreign has become perhaps the most important means currently at women’s disposal to resist gendered expectations of the female life course in Japan” (Women on the Verge 2) (165)  Kelsky argues that the “liberatory potential of the West,” as these women define it, “is intertwined with desire… Continue reading Beyond the Mother Tongue

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