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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

For this exercise, I decided to listen to a recording from back in Liverpool but found that there weren’t very many at all, but I found this recording of the Liverpool harbour (https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=41732&snd=47583) to be quite inviting. The soundscape has a constant hiss of wind and washes of water with an underpinning engine hum drone…