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Week 17
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…
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Week 18
I was still unable to attend class this week, apparently my work rota should be sorted and readjusted in a couple of weeks, so I will have to put up with most of my work being done independently while I balance doing everything at once. It is obviously not ideal but it has to be…
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Week 19
Yet another week of missing class to travel back to London, so another week of purely remote work. I read over the text suggested last week, which was : Weaponizing Quietness: Sound Bombs and the Racialization of Noise by Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, and it was quite related to the previous week’s topic…
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Week 21
This was, weirdly enough, the first lecture I have been able to physically be there for, which was nice for sure, but it does kind of feel like being dropped right into it even though I’ve been trying to be attentive to what is going on. Regardless, the class was mostly talking about a text…
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Week 22
This week I got out another book from the library after finishing Alan Licht’s, this one being less sound-oriented and more general to the arts, called Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art by Kieran Cashell. This was because of some ideas generating over the break concerning Noise and what I consider an issue, going…
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Week 23
Spending more time trying to absorb myself in this work, I think I feel like I have a more solid grasp of what I want to write about, and it is kind of funny to me that I am going to be writing about Power Electronics since it is going to likely set myself up…
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Week 26
For the past 2 weeks, I have had hearing issues that have rendered me basically unable to hear, which was obviously extremely depressing since I don’t do much other than music. Thankfully, after 2 appointments with a doctor, the issue was solved. I’m not wanting to go into the specifics since it is pretty gross,…
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Week 27
Because of being more behind on this project more than I would like to have been, the final week of the project has been full of a lot of work as well. I took to trimming down the work to 12 minutes (which I guess is still maybe overkill, but it really works with the…
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Week 1 – Introduction To Sound Arts
While becoming obsessed with exploring Drone and Noise genres of music, I started to find artists I enjoyed using the term “sound artist” over the usual “musician” categorisation – those being the likes of Francisco Merino (under the name Phroq), Joe Colley and Daniel Menche – who while still making what I would deem “noise…
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Week 2 – Sound Arts Keywords
Texture – What I think separates styles of “sound-arts” from music for most people is the emphasis on texture rather than traditional musical elements, the characteristics of a sound and how it has been abstracted or expanded on and what associations the listener has based on these sounds. It is also important to note how…