This was the first week of the Collaboration module, so it was more or less just establishing what is expected of us this term and laying out the foundation for what we should be thinking about throughout. It was also my first time being taught by Hannah who has a very different approach to teaching…

This week’s session allowed for the animation students to pitch their projects to us to see if we are interested in the first pathway, and disappointingly the session kind of moved me away from that direction more than I had hoped. There were a couple projects that I thought were nice but mostly nothing I…

Today’s session was delivered by Sarah Macdonald rather than Hannah and focused on theories related to collaboration and how to engage with those projects. To me, the ideas didn’t really present much excitement, and rather just reinforced the same ideas I already had. What I did enjoy, though, was visiting the “Igloo” 270-degree screen in…

This week’s session was a visit from Megan Steinberg of Drake Music, which is the organisation responsible for the second path of this project. It was very interesting, but it hasn’t swayed me on doing that pathway really, as I am not so technologically proficient. But I did like seeing the instrument examples given, especially…

This week’s session was apparently supposed to be for us all to present slides related to what we have going on with our project at the moment (which, (somewhat thankfully) I was not the only one who didn’t get the memo for), as it is our last week before spring where we are expected to…

This spring I did some collaborative work with a couple of people online, but not much for this project. I did a duo with a classical violinist over voice call which was pretty fun, I went into it thinking that classical practice would actually make it applicable to this project since I am from a…

I struggle a lot with balancing multiple deadlines at once and a bad habit of going off to prioritise things that ultimately aren’t important, so I’ve been trying to get stuck in with the two modules ongoing as much as I can. I did however get to visit my friend Jack C in Manchester while…

Over the last two weeks, I haven’t been able to do much, as I have had some hearing issues I needed to have treated that was rendering me basically unable to hear anything, which is obviously very depressing for me as I don’t really care about much other than music. Thankfully, it was not noise-related…

I have been working on the recording since last week, cutting out some parts that I felt were blunders, unpleasant or redundant. There is also some aspects that I forgot to mention prior, like the use of microcassette re-recordings of Jack’s voice occasionally put back through the microphones on the spot to add extra scuzz,…

The track is finished, I added a drone made from Nick Drake’s They’re Leaving Me Behind track with reverb and low pass like Cory does that appears toward the latter half, as well as some better mixing and more thoughtful structuring. It is clipping in places but I enjoy the sound of it, it is…