a sound arts blog
For a while now I’ve had this idea of doing what I’ve taken to calling a “sound breakdown”. Essentially I want to take a piece and start off with regular sound design (ambience, action sound effects, etc.) to the best of my ability, and then gradually transition into vocal impressions of the sounds that would …
Continue reading “Acapella sound design, radio broadcast ideas”
Live streaming from my phone has become a newfound joy of mine, in class we were introduced to the Locus Sonus app and associated soundmap and I feel like I’ve found an incredible newfound hobby. For such a long time I’ve been very interested in art and technology that is accessible to almost anyone, when …
Using field recordings and turning it into music but “not quite fully” Voice is everything that you are, cant be faked Use of the voice Such a long time I’ve been very interested in the voice as an instrument although, perhaps, instrument isn’t the right word. In what I do do there are three main …
One of the things I often think about is how sound art and (more specifically to my own work) sound design can be done in a performative context, of course with things like music it is a long and storied tradition dating back as far as history can be recorded. But for something that an …
For sonic doing and thinking I read an extract from Arnheim Rudolphs “Radio”, and I must say how incredibly gratifying it is to be reading about what it is that you have been waiting so long to learn about and to develop your skills around. It’s not that it has opened up my eyes to …
Continue reading ““Activity, then, is of the essence of sound””
“I think when I first learned that the sounds of the animals in nature documentaries were not real, or, rather, were at least done in post it was less of a surprised amazement, but was more of a “oh of course!”. Even with the knowledge that most sound effects aren’t actually recorded on set in …
Continue reading “Kate Hopkins, sound design in documentaries”
Over the weekend from the 12th to the 14th I worked as a sound recordist for a documentary about non-binary people with a student from LCF, each day we visited a different person and talked about their journey of self discovery, what their daily lives are like and what it is like to be non-binary. …
I am so enthralled by the composition of divided we scroll, the use of traditional strings and synths perfectly encapsulates the relationship between the organic humanity and the artificial, constructed devices we seem to have tethered ourselves to. And the fact that said strings are warped in pitch emphasises that idea of how we are …
Relationship between dance and sound: In asking about the relationship between dance and sound, and if music is essential for dance to be performed Yassmin answered that it is not. First she pointed out that if we watch a video of someone dancing and we were to remove the music, or if we see someone …
I will continue to update this as I go along, the process is slow especially because of university and such but here you will find some explanations as to how I made various sound effects in the latest episode of Chain of Being In the interests of honesty I will say that I am writing …
Continue reading “Chain of Being episode 16 production diary”