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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…
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The art of storytelling with sound
Hunger by Steve Mcqueen Walter Murch’s words encapsulate this perfectly “You have more freedom with sound than you do with picture. There are, consequently, fewer rules. But the big three things—which are emotion, story, and rhythm—apply to sound just as much as they apply to picture. You are always primarily looking for something that will…
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The walkman effect by Shuhei Hosokawa
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…
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Foley
Inside the Pinewood foley studio Jack Foley We Need To Talk About Kevin directed by Lynne Ramsey Reflections Learning about Foley, from the precision of Pinewoods studio to the legacy of Jack Foley himself has completely reshaped the way I think about sound for screen. These sessions have shown me that sound isn’t just something…
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PureData
This week we had a lot of new content especially on this open software called PureData, its a creative community for makers, musicians and engineers. It’s a block type coding site that you can code hardware and software. In this particular lesson we had our first look at Beagleboard. Beagleboard are a stripped down audio…
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The voice in cinematic language
John Akomfrah Review of the arrangement for my sounds collected Last week we went out and recorded environmental audio whilst making a sonic map of what we heard around us. I collected some audio signals into an arrangement and in todays lecture we watched a short film with my audio layered in top. Surprisingly, it…
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Introduction to Aural Cultures
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…
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Audio visual language
Lesson overview: In today’s session we looked at the course content of Sound for Screen unit guide. We had a couple of administration tasks to do then we talked about the type of audio visual language that’s used in the audio for sound industry. We also examined some historical examples of sound for screen and…