I’m generally more comfortable working with analogue equipment, I picked up my love of no-input back in second year and have been experimenting with it ever since, adding and rearranging various sound modules (delay/reverb pedals, looper pedals, vocal processors etc.) finding a certain approach to making noise music. Early on I made very basic harsh …
Category archives: Uncategorised
Portfolio, Experiment 3
For this experiment I definitely went in a more subtle direction with the influence the material had. One of the versions of the speech Amiee recorded while whispering felt like a more appropriate one, it provides a kind of through line through the track which I quite enjoy. The rest of the elements were more …
portfolio, Listening to Tryweryn
Historical context In 1957 Liverpool city council brought a private bill to parliament to develop a reservoir in the populated Tryweryn valley. In 1962 They were granted authority by act of parliament, allowing them to go ahead with the project without requiring any permission from any welsh authorities or welsh inquiry. After much protest and …
Portfolio, vaporwave/my anti-capitalist aesthetics
Looking into modern iterations of industrial music I was pointed to the political leanings of vaporwave. I had been into the genre for purely aesthetic reasons however seeing now it as a response to capitalism really make sme see it in a different light. I read through Charlie Jones comments on ‘Vaporwave and the pop-art …
Continue reading “Portfolio, vaporwave/my anti-capitalist aesthetics”
Portfolio, Emptyset experiments
In trying to find a second project for this module I’ve toyed with the idea of something site-based and something industrial. Annie suggested looking into the work of Emptyset. I listened and found the aesthetics of the work extremely appealing and decided to look into their process and the way they approached their creative practice. …
Portfolio, Apathy is death/silence=death
Since being introduced to the idea of Anarchism in my first year of university it has gone on to influence my world view, it has been a framework with which I have been opened to Queer, anti-capitalist, and de-colonial thought. It acts not only as a political system but a lens through which I view …
Portfolio, Noecelia experiments 3
In continuing my experiments of manipulating the various vocal samples I have I decided to try and use Ableton Live’s wavetable synth to create some more interesting textures. I find this approach really appealing as it manages to allow for really interesting digital manipulation while letting me utilise more synth-based techniques. All of these methods …
Portfolio, Deciding between performance/album/installation
One of the things I’ve been struggling to decide is what form this project will take, the three main forms that seem to be appealing to me most are an album, a performance and an Installation. Album This would be the smallest leap from what form it took before, I’ve always likened audio drama to …
Continue reading “Portfolio, Deciding between performance/album/installation”
Portfolio, Experimentation 1
My first attempt at experimentation was to take the only elements I had from this recording, the voice lines I had recorded. The idea of using only voice, and the use of voice in general has been something that has always interested me and in this particular example finding a point in which you are …
Portfolio, Early Mockup
This was an early attempt at a mock-up of the scene I’m working from as a source. I think using this as a working start will be interesting but also as a measure of what I’m trying to move away from. The idea suggested by Annie during one of our tutorials of using the elements …