Provide an example of audio drama, something unique and specific to this essay, create a world in these 8 mins in which the essay takes place, the interviews happen here in this world of thought. I want to explore narration in audio based storytelling and to show people the mediums many facets Audio drama—intimate—headphones and …
Author archives: Cai Pritchard
The Green Knight, thoughts on the sound
Today I saw The Green Knight, a psychedelic fantasy film by David Lowery. It is an adaptation of the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It is a whirlwind of unique cuts and visuals, fantastic performances and amazing sound design and score. In it’s score, the film relies on falsetto choirs which can range …
Evolution/devolution
I find myself very intrigued by the process we’re taking in studio praxis. I had been wondering what a class filled with different people of differing artistic interests and backgrounds could do together and this is an interesting way to do it. As a collective we’re essentially acting as Intelligent Artificial Intelligence, behaving in the …
Finding meaning through erasing words
There was a very interesting exercise today in sound studies in Aural cultures, we took a page from a book and removed parts to place focus on words and phrases that relate to our work and interests for the audio paper we will be doing, I decided to take words that relate to my feelings …
Sam Auinger
Urban sounds as sound sources in Harmonic gate, creates harmonies out of the sounds of an urban environment. It’s interesting because of the complexity of a city, each day is entirely unique, in making sound and music from it you have endless new combinations. The ultimate generative track. One piece that has me slightly mesmerised …
Studio project ideas
I’ve been thinking about the elements that make up audio drama for me, whilst also considering what I can do that is different in the medium, what does it look like to experiment audio drama? One idea I’ve considered is inspired by a story that Milo mentioned in class where The Flaming Lips would take …
Future and possible innovations of Audio Drama
As I go back in to university and find myself thinking once more in an artistic fashion and with a eye on the future as well as the present it’s got me thinking about what the next steps for audio drama are? In looking at the history for sound for film it feels like some …
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3 podcasts treated like audio papers
One of the Podcasts I listened to was signifying something, hosted by Steve Flato, in the episode I sampled he talked to Sarah Hennies who premiered a piece called “Pressure” which consisted of a high hat struck repeatedly. It was made in a way to emulate the therapeutic repetition that Sarah had experienced. They also …
Fourth Man, Raw Data
I have recently been introducing to the method of importing the raw data of various non-sound files and having a daw interpret it as sound, on larger files it usually turns to static however occasionally you end up with some really curious results, visually as well the waveforms are quite unique. It feels very exciting …
Fourth Man, Synthetic footsteps
In order to have a greater sense of the personal in my piece and at the behest of my teachers i decided to try and not use pre recorded snow footstep sounds in my piece, one approach I decided to try out was to tailor a synth to try and get it sound like footsteps …