Because of my current situation with work, I work weekends in Liverpool and come back to London on a Monday morning. My shifts will conflict with these lectures for a while until my schedule is changed. For the time being, I will try to keep up with the work remotely to the best of my ability, which is not ideal but necessary if I don’t want to fall behind.

This week’s material served as an introduction to what is expected of us individually this term, with the work being an audio piece and essay focused on contemporary issues in sound art relating to UAL’s principles on climate, social, and racial justice. The idea is that the two works are interweaving, the creative practice informing the research and vice versa. This to me is a more exciting mode of research than purely using reading material, as it encourages more active exploration and more individual work than poring over already well-founded ideas.

As for initial ideas on what can be done for this unit, I’m not quite sure, I don’t think I would have much to add regarding issues related to gender or racial angles in Sound Art or Noise because it would be coming from the perspective of a White Male, which I think would just be amusing if anything. I do think though that there is in noise a particular problem with the implicit exclusion of marginalized groups within more Power Electronics-associated circles due to the genre’s history, which could be pried into and possibly interesting but I think it might be a little bit useless and unintentionally grandstand-ish, and is much more appropriate to be explored by anyone else. It will most likely take me a bit of time before I can fall upon a proper subject to focus on, so I am going to try and stay open-minded about what it could be until then