Category: Contemporary Issues in Sound Art

I chose to wrote one blogpost on some of the visiting practitioner lectures and some of the notes I kept from them. March 9th: Angus Carlyle -questions sound’s claims to immediacy -field notes -‘cortisol listening’ – the reason why field recordings seem to never capture the whole experience of the sound; – April 13th: Derek… Continue reading Sound Arts Lecture Series

I will be using this blogpost to make apparent how I see my creative soundwork relating to the subject of my essay. At the core of my research lays the question of authenticity, along with immediacy and intimacy. Sound often claims I have a troubled relationship with authenticity. What stories am I trying to tell?… Continue reading Reflective Writing/Context

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

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

‘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

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

‘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

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

One of my aims with my sound piece is to blend together organic and anorganic sounds. I am interested in the perception of intimacy in vocals (particularly female) and this idea of closeness. Going back once again to the vapours motif (?), I was watching a video a while ago where the dance of the… Continue reading Clicks and Crackles

For this unit I tried to shift my process backwards. I started by asking myself what it is that I am attracted to artistically and what it is that I want to make. Instead of coming up with a concept and area of research through my readings I tried to direct my reading towards the… Continue reading Creative Sound Work References