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Blog entry 1: Working title idea
Returning to Hilly Fields. What does a place sound like now versus memory? Why Hilly Fields? Hilly Fields is a place I return to for its sounds. This project starts from a simple question: is the place I remember the same as the place I record? Hilly fields is a hill side park that overlooks…
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Session with David Mollin – Research Project intro
This session was led by David Mollin, who introduced the two final year routes: Dissertation (route A) and an audio paper (route B). He also went through the proposal document we need to submit, breaking it down in a way that quite open rather than overly strict. We spent a lot of the session working…
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Approaching installation methods
In this session we explored the possibilities of using transducers speakers within sound art practice. Transducers are small speakers that vibrate objects instead of pushing sound directly into the air like traditional speakers. This means almost any object or surface can become a speaker itself. Boxes, can, tables, windows or even walls can shape the…
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Listening when things aren’t clear: Exploring Sound and Inverse Effectiveness
We usually don’t trust what we see first. Vision feels immediate and reliable. But what happens when what we hear is unclear, quiet or incomplete? Do we ignore it, or do we start listening more closely? This is where the idea of Inverse Effectiveness becomes interesting. It suggests that when signals are weak on their…
