Category: Creative Sonic Projects

What makes church music sound so distinctive? First of all, quartal harmony, according to Twentieth – Century Harmony (V. Persichetti). Simple melodies composed of small steps. The Dorian mode seems to work best. Male voices. Wide, dark reverb. A rough draft of an idea included below. It did not fit into this current project’s theme… Continue reading Service

The past few weeks have been spent thinking of ways to incorporate weaving into my project. It sprung many creative ideas, the main struggle seems to be transferring them into sound. Although I was set onto basing my project on Romanian traditional practices, I recently came across an Iranian custom known by the name of… Continue reading The Woven Sounds

I was surprised to find out the involvement of Daphne Oram with drawn sound, which is something I took an interest in reading about sound art in Russia and Evgeny Sholpo’s Variophone. It’s quite a popular practice translating the sound into visuals but it somehow never occurred to me that it could be done the… Continue reading Oramics

Since that Louise Bourjeois exhibition I find myself pretty set on sewing and weaving and finding a way of somehow incorporating these in my project. I set out to build a small loom out of an old frame. My initial intention was to use the final ‘cloth’ resulted as a form of graphic score. Sadly,… Continue reading Graphic Scores

There are a few distinct forms of song making up most of the Romanian folklore. As folk songs usually tend do, they are created to serve certain functions. Such songs have been documented by Constantin Brailoiu in his book Esquisse d’ une mèthode de folklore musical published in 1931. Between 1951 and 1958 he released… Continue reading Does the Caged Bird Sing?

The Woven Child, Hayward Gallery The first impression stepping in was left by the soft colours. Pink satin, off white nightgowns, rough wood and old tapestry. Pink, blue, beige. Motherly, feminine, soft, welcoming, comforting. Reminds me Jan Svankmajer’s movie, Alice in Wonderland. I feel a yearning. I wanna be hugged by it. And I think… Continue reading Louise Bourgeois