I had a wealth of information and content for the audio paper that unfortunately had to be cut for time, the full interview with the crew from Ghosts on a Train came to 40 minutes of a very interesting talk about actual play and the audiences relationship with creators, which we saved and used as …
Tag archives: Sound studies and Aural cultures
Lucia H Chung. discovering artistic practice
Lucia H Chung (AKA: en creux) is a London based Taiwanese artist who works in the worlds of no input and feedback. I found her lecture to be extremely relatable, she spoke about the development and backstory of her artistic practice and how she came into No-Input. She talked about how she struggled to find …
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Post Crit write up
After my crit for sound studies and aural cultures I was given some really helpful ideas and advice, the main consensus was to slow things down and take a bit more time to explain things, there are some things I had assumed where common knowledge (like the concept of the fourth wall) which turned out …
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR RADIO DRAMA , notes
I recently went on another Jstor downloading spree and downloaded a piece written in the 80s by Geoffrey Hepinstall, the following is a series of notes and observations I took whilst reading that I’ve transcribed from my notebook. “Radio as a dramatic medium needs to be more than a clearing house for work which can …
Audio paper draft
The following is the state my audio paper is currently in, right now it feels as if the majority of the paper will be centred around the discussion with the crew of Ghosts on a Train, I do not produce an actual play podcast and so instead of speculating I am going to go to …
Experimental Foley, audio paper
For my audio paper I recorded a few sound effects for the purposes of emphasising the words in my audio paper, one of my ideas was to have a voice actor read out any citations I make and do sound that would suggest that they are a character in a scene, thus creating the feel …
Ryoji Ikeda, data
Earlier this year I went to see an installation at 180 studios by artist Ryoji Ikeda. Ikeda uses an incredible mix of sound and visuals to explore the world of data and audio in what he calls “raw” states. The installation was a series of rooms each with a different display. There was a consistent …
Instructional score, audio paper
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 …
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 …