Category: Specialising and Exhibiting
Ideas?
Where to Start?
It’s not very usual to see sound pieces in galleries. At least not in my experience. https://www.tobiasbradford.com/the-beauty
Extending Musical Form Outwards in Space and Time: Compositional strategies in sound art and audiovisual installations
there are at least as many forms as there are visitors experiencing the work. ‘space [becomes] a pulsating encounter, created through movement of sounds,modified by movement of the person experiencing the space – movement … as space-shaping temporal process; space as time-space’ (Kern 1984). as noted by Gaston Bachelard, specific architectural features such as corners,… Continue reading Extending Musical Form Outwards in Space and Time: Compositional strategies in sound art and audiovisual installations
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
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