a sound arts blog
Amie is the co-founder of the podcast network ‘Faustian Nonsense‘ (of which I am a member) and a showrunner of upcoming audio drama ‘Jack of All Trades‘. She is a self described “Rebounding ethicist, and a recovering attorney” and does her work with Faustian Nonsense ” for the sake of creating an ethical, thriving, hub of …
Continue reading “Queerness in Audio Drama, Interview with Amelia Kinch”
The Following is a sheet of responses to a survey put out to find out about Queerness in audio drama
After finally having an in person lesson in which to properly explore ableton live with 1:1 assistance I finally felt confident to finally approach it and I must say it’s clear why this program is so popular. Even with the base software instruments and effects there is so much to be done. The first piece …
Continue reading “Using Ableton, one sound and other experiments”
“When I look back at those days I have no doubt that Providence guided us, not only across those snow fields, but across the storm-white sea that separated Elephant Island from our landing place on South Georgia. I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers …
Upon listening to falaise by floating points and it’s slightly jittery strings, I was completely enthralled by this repeated cutting out, something about it was so unique and present, the whole song is very powerful and really stirs up the emotions of the listener. At first I had thought it was some kind of tremolo …
Continue reading “Side chain Compression experiments, creative uses”
Looking back at this exercise it’s interesting how similar a form it has to ‘The Shadow in the Purple’ a text punctuated by sound that doesn’t necessarily match the sound source directly but instead acts as a loose interpretation, an impression of what it is, as abstract art often represents complex emotion unpresentable by language.
When the group had decided on colour (fully with my support, I in know way mean to suggest I didn’t have my part in deciding this) I was initially at a loss as to how to approach the stimulus. I had considered going the route that Steve suggested and ended up going with by using …
Continue reading “Creative Sound Project: Approach to the final piece”
Thanks to the content of the creative sound project module I’ve been looking more and more into using sampling in my pieces, I’ve always been more interested into the Musique concrète side of sound art, I find the use of real world sounds which are then manipulated into something else to be a very creatively …
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What place does sound have in your life? How often do you listen? Do you have a favourite sound, and how often do you hear it? What does it mean if something is ‘musical’? Is what you create ‘musical’ in any way? If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there …
Continue reading “5 questions about music, sound, listening and so on”
The first time I had heard of Robert Henke, also known as Monolake was when I began to learn about granular synthesis in my creative sound projects module, already I was in love with the process, using the Cecelia 5 module to really experiment and test it’s limits. I found (and do still feel this …
Continue reading “Robert Henke, future of sound art technology”