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Tuning in: Listening as attention, feeling and survival
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,…
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Power, Politics and performance
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…
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Final mix – Bringing everything together
This week had been completely centred around building the final mix for my film. It’s the first time everything I’ve recorded, designed and composed has come together in one place and it’s been strongly satisfying hearing the project finally take shape. A lot of the work had been focused on the foley I recorded earlier…
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Foley room session
This week our main focus as a group was to start getting our final mix to speed. We talked about how where progressing within our group. I talked about my final mix, and how I was slowing working towards the deadline. Jessica mentioned to me about how panning and or playing my mix in 5:1.…
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Place, composition and subjectivity
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…
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NOWISWHENWEARE BFI
NOWISWHENWEARE NOWISWHENWEARE is an exhibition that was shown in October to accompany the BFI film festival. I was introduced to this exhibition by my lecturer Jessica Marlowe and wanted to check it out. The artist is Andrew Schneider who is know in the film industry for his works on The Sopranos (1999) and Northern Exposure…
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Emotional narratives and subjectivity, filming through sound
Paul Davis Why use music on film? My response to this was multifaceted. I think it has several uses, one might be too evoke a feeling where it is needed. We are able to do this in several ways, like to have a sad song played at a sad part of a film. However, directors…
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Fiction, poets and voice
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…
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Margret Tait Aerial (1974)
This four minute poet film by Margret Tait touches natural elemental feeling like water, air and fire. It doesn’t follow a narrative sonically and is more structured for a musical score than a narrative driven film. Instead of us pushing through a plot, Tait constructs a world of rhythms, textures and emotional pulses. Taits films…
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Extended studio practice week three
This week we looked into making a drum machine, we used the same equipment and added a button for the input for the kick and snare. Its quite simple loop but it was fun to see our work actually coming into fruit to create these drum loops and oscillators. This week I did struggle a…