This week I have been developing my ideas for the audio paper thats due in next week and the more I think about it the more I realise how much tuning in is already part of my everyday life. Not just in a musical sense, like tuning an instrument, but tuning myself to environments. adjusting,…

In this session we began to explore how listening can reveal hidden structures of power, identity and experience within everyday environments. With my audio paper in Aural Cultures idea coming into fruition we looked today at expanding my ideas for my Tuning In audio paper. I plan to create an audio paper that investigates how…

Place, composition and subjectivity What makes these things important? This week session is the consideration of space and our place within it. For example we see some woods as a particular place but what do we recognise in the spaces? The awareness of the space changes with ones intentionality. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment And…

Week 6 reminder of class crits for the audio paper What fiction do I know? A lot of the fiction that I digest is through books, I read a lot as it calms my mind before going to sleep. I love to get lost in these stories and tap into a fictional world so far…

Key Concepts The key concepts that I noticed when reading this essay where how portable listening was reshaping public spaces. It shows how the listener creates a bubble of audio, that’s a private soundtrack that overlays into the public world, which in turn changes the simple act of walking into a performative art. I think…

We met Mark and did the usal discussion about who we are and what we are interested in. Mark talked about his enjoyment for this work and the type of studies we will be doing. “Its very driven creativley through an audio paper, it has a lot of critical thinking.” Im looking forward to trying…