INTRO I chose to specialise in sound for film because I am interested in creating scores for horror and avant guard films. Last year I looked into Angelo Badlementi’s score for the Series ‘Twin Peaks’ and particularly focused on how he improvises along side David Lynch’s description of the scene as i am interested in…

Spatial Sound Intro Notes In this session we looked at spatial sound. We watched a section of the film ‘Gravity’ where spatial sound is used to elevate the tense soundtrack. The use of spatial sound creates a more enhanced experience of listening. You’re able to map sounds to a location through using a surround system…

Sound Objects Sampling and Music Concrete In this session we learnt about Music concrete and sound objects. We took house hold objects such as cups and saucers and made sound from them. We then sampled these sounds found the best area to loop then took that and edited out any unwanted sounds. I completed this…

Afro Futurism ‘”Apocalypse bin in effect’ from the 1992 PublicEnemy track ‘Welcome to the Terradome’, Mark Sinker’s 1992 essay‘Loving the Alien’ argued that this lyric could be interpreted to read thatslavery functioned as an apocalypse experienced as equivalent toalien abduction: ‘The ships landed long ago: they already laid wastewhole societies, abducted and genetically altered swathes…

komplete Kontrol experiment on Ableton. I switched onto purple mode by pressing (cmd M) then I inverted the detune control to zero and then all the way up on the other side and assigned it to the same knob on the midi keyboard. After doing this I was able to get a strange uneasy effect…

Essay Plan QUESTION B) A sensory ethnography of a gig / exhibition / concert / online sonic experience. Lydia Lunch in Hastings at the Piper points: How she interacted with crowd (confrontational) .Male vs female reaction. .How crowd reacted during the support band vs main act .The fans vs the people who had just shown…

Question from slide: What do you associate with the term ‘ecology’? The study of living organism in their environment Global Sonic Cultures 09 Sonic ecologies • Which ways of practicing sonic ecologies can you think of? Field recording Listening to nature Listening to the city Documenting sounds ”Eros, desire, life forces run through everything, not…

How Colonisation Affects Archives/Participatory archives Global Sonic Cultures 08 – Archives ”… the archive is neither merely a repository of historical sources; nor is it a representation of history. Rather, it is a site of contradicting efforts to order and create knowledges about the constructed Other and the Self. Thus, universalising global historical narratives are…

Sound Art to me is the exploration of sound through the lens of Fine Art. Exploring the depth of sound links us closer to our sensitivity and awareness to the world around us therefore giving us a more extensive palette to work from. Throughout this course i am going to focus myself into the world…