‘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
Category: Year Two
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
British Library Sound Archive
The highlight for me was seeing wax cylinders and being able to understand how they work. I encountered them last year looking into the recordings of Constantin Brailoiu and they stayed a mystery to me until now. During the studios tour, Karl, the sound archivist (/sound engineer?) mentioned he was working on some english speech… Continue reading British Library Sound Archive
More Organic Popping Candy
Watching some of the most popular ASMR videos on Youtube one thing stands out. They all use cheap microphones. Besides that, the microphone is often touched to produce the sound, which makes the resulting sound at least partly distortion. It is interesting to me then how the sounds people listen to for this sense of… Continue reading More Organic Popping Candy
Katalin Ladik
Holly Herndon – voice-body, sousveillance
I have been searching for ASMR references within sound art. This article on Holly Herndon is one of the few I managed to find so far. I was familiar with her work before but never really went in detail in my research. The article speaks of the body – technology dynamic in the digital ‘post-human’… Continue reading Holly Herndon – voice-body, sousveillance
Cold Meridian
This 7 minute short ‘blends voyeurism, hair washing and dance as it dives into the strange, sensual pleasures of sonic textures’. (Mubi) The repeated rituals of an online performer have a transfixing effect on her viewers, in this short exploration of sensual audio visual stimulation. What starts as an exploration of tactility, addiction and control… Continue reading Cold Meridian
Yes yes, but why?
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?
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