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Week 20
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…
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Week 21
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…
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Week 22
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…
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Week 24
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…
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Week 26
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…
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Week 28
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,…
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Week 29
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…
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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…