Month: November 2024

Week 7

–Start reading Sonic Arts from Trevor Wishart and pick a line that you found the most interesting. Try to add your thoughts to it (such as why it resonates with you or if you don’t agree, form discussions).–

talks about lattice structure of music form as classic notes and pitches.

“Music as an alternative mode of communication, however, has always threatened the hegemony of writing and the resultant dominance of the scribehood’s world-view.”

I do agree and say that music is most definatly a form of communication. However, I dont beieve it has changed the scribe’s dominance. People do have free will and listen to music that suits their peronallity or social standing. Research shows that people with higher social orientation tend to gravitate towards music that portrays themes of power and sucsses.

In a social context, I believe music as a means of signalling someones social and power position rather than changing it.

Week 7

Context

This week has been more productive for me. I have been putting a lot of my attention into the idea for my final soundscape. I have also have been looking for a job and have trail shift on Saturday so this week has been very productive for me.

I planned to start on my reflecting writing so I can focus more on my creative slide of the work. What I did was I started listening Clams Casino who uses samples in a way that is appealing to my practice. I researched into computer voices and how many we hear everyday. I made some really good samples using old voicemails from my phone and using them in my sound scape.

I did well at getting a final idea for my creative soundscape, I have a clear goal now and I know what I need to do and want it to sound like. I excelled at making a template on Ableton and started to organise the sounds in my DAW. I can improve upon the reflective writing part of my hand in that need some attention.

Next I plan to find similar soundscapes made up of samples and voicemails and or familiar voices. I want to research into some sampling techniques and how I can use my own samples in my music or practice. I plan to make more techniques into Ableton for my final work. I plan to write a draft for my reflective writing and to get some ideas down about what I want to write about.

week 5

This week we went to Leytonstone to look at Graeme Miller’s execution about the rehousing project that made over 500 people homeless. He used sound broadcasts to portray the people who used to live there, by following a map you can tap into these transitions and listen to the stories of the people who lived there.

My reflections

I thought it was a very moving work, the voices you hear on the broadcast are very ghost like which I thought to be almost creepy. I really liked the way you could hear the voices of the old residents over the sound of the motorway that made people loose their homes. It feels like it’s a forgotten piece of the past and gives people a voice for the people who used to lived there.

On top of this the people in these audio signals are reflecting on the objects around them that still exist today. I gave me a sense of reality to the situation that happened and gives these voices a visual sense which brings them even more to life.

The people who walk past you during this sound experience gives you a strange livelihood to the people that live there. It gave the walk more depth and giving into this harsh reality of the unpleasant history of this place.

It made me think about my own work, this idea of personal digital signals in a beatuful prospect for my own work. I have decided to record the voicemails on my phone as a peice of personailty captured in recording.