We recently took a class trip to Otherworld VR in Hackney in what I found to be a really fun and informative experience, the décor was layed out in a stereotypical sci-fi aesthetic and it was hard to not feel like I was in a black mirror episode or something from minority report. I think …
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Contemporary issues in sound art, Creative sound work intentions
For my creative sound work I have decided to go quite literal in combining my interests of oral storytelling in the context of welsh traditions and Audio Drama podcasts. My piece will be a recording of me performing a translation of Cad Goddeu, a welsh medieval poem about a battle where the wizard Gwydion caused …
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Noise music, aural textures and, sound design
Recently I’ve had a few thoughts going around in my head about noise music, my own sound art practice and how this informs/will inform/has informed sound design in CoB and other projects I’ve worked on and so to solidify them I’ve decided to write about it here Noise music, in the way that I use …
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Audio Drama as a career
When I first started my Audio Drama, Chain of Being, back in October of 2019: I did so as a hobbyist. I of course had fantasies of getting as big as Welcome to Nightvale or Wolf 359 but realistically I never really felt like I would be able to eat off of my passion project …
Collab, Sense of Place
I reread through “Spirit of Place and Sense of Place in Virtual Realities” by Edward Relph and I found much to think about. Immediately the idea that all concepts and ideas do in fact come from a place, as much as we like to lean in to this Platonic concept of a realm of thought, …
Literature review, “What the English could learn from the Eisteddfod”
link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/33841602 This article from Benjamin Zephaniah about the Eisteddfod is a really interesting, outsiders perspective into the festival. Zephaniah presents a really non-judgemental view of the event and makes some really excellent points overall. It’s full of quotes that would make really good references in the final essay, I think particularly about the effect …
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Essay plan
This is further attempts to structure my essay with a loose guide for topics and word count. I’ve put them in to a structure that makes sense and follows as well as refining the topics into something I can follow more easily in the future. I planned out a route for the essay to go …
Essay planning
In order to begin a plan for my Contemporary issues in Sound Art essay I created a mind map of different topics/questions/answers that I could talk about. The major body of the essay is going to be a comparison of modern audio drama podcasts and Oral traditions, using the Eisteddfod as a primary example. I …
Collaboration, Forest field recording
During the break I took a trip with my Dad up to Wales to visit some of our family there. Much of North Wales has a lot of forests and wooded areas which are situated away from any roads or general civilisation. We climbed to the top of Abergele mountain and I sat on my …
Collaboration, Next steps for Collab project
The experience is still split into 3 separate moments w/ the menu connecting it all What are we going to change? Should we keep the spirit of the original project or try to alter the meaning? In terms of changing it I feel like I could either just put more time and thought into enhancing …
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