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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…
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Week 7 – Longplayer
Longplayer was concieved as a thousand year long composition that will play without repetition, with loops of singing bowls playing simultaneously but their positions never matching until a kind of “eclipse” event where after the thousand years have passed the positions will finally be all at their starting position. I use the word eclipse here…
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Week 8 – Introduction to Electroacoustic Music
Daniel Menche – Static Burn “Constructions created with crude analog and digital treatments of tortured electronics, destroyed voices, raw materials and one old forgotten song.” For this task, I decided I wanted to dig into one of my favourite Electroacoustic albums so that I already had that familiarity but can apply new ideas I learnt…
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Week 9 – Audio-vision and electronic innovation
For this task I decided to use the opening scene of Persona (1966), which we did do in class but I had not seen the film before and wanted to watch the whole thing afer seeing this part in class, as I found it to be extremely impressive. The start of the scene focuses on…