After two rehearsals and a meet up we are ready to perform tomorrow. I think it will be relaxed almost like a rehearsal as we are still finding our feet and how we want to sound/ present ourselves. Jo is putting my guitar and his guitar and the synth through the tape machine and then…

Reflection ‘birds sing together’ is the initial idea for opening. composed on synth and vocals layered over the top were improvised to the drone. I sent this to my collaborator as the rough idea for the opening piece. This will then blend into a noise orientated improvisational piece Overall i am happy with how the…

I have decided to postpone the nurse performance as i will not have time to get everything together and get another collaborator to be the patient. We now have a date for when we can perform as we have been booked to play at the Horse Hospital and only have two weeks to prepare. i…

For this collaboration I decided to work with a friend on a short performance piece that we could deliver to a live audience. My initial idea is to create a noise set around the idea of a nurse and doctor. I’m currently looking online for victorian medical equipment such as stethoscopes and tongs which i…

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…