Month: December 2021

I found this lecture very cool, I love her use of feedback as an instrument and how that concept of sonic recycling manifests itself as an ethos as a practicing artist, I also think her work with sculpture is pretty cool as I love the way she explained the ways how the two concepts interlink. Her work in radio was also very interesting to me as that is the concept I am doing with my aural cultures project is. Her interviewing technique of asking where they come from sonically and how it relates to where they are going is definitely a concept I will use in my audio paper.

Her work as En creux is really cool, how she improvises with feedback is amazing as feedback is often looked as an uncontrollable force, something we want to decrease as much as possible , but the way she reigns it in and uses it as a sonic tool is really interesting and inspiring to me.

I found this lecture very interesting as I found his work in transforming city noise in real time really interesting, this is something I’d like to get into, installation work that manipulates it’s own environment in real-time, I think this is a very pure form of art, as I believe consumption of art and how we react to it is very much based on the context of the art and when or how we are consuming it. But I think when the context and the surroundings is interacting and in conversation with the art itself it makes for something very interesting.

His views and thoughts on sonic perspective and thinking with the ears are also very interesting and how sound is information.

I really enjoyed this lecture, especially her work in the Baltic Sea, measuring the sound levels, I thought this was very interesting as it showed how sound can be used as measuring tool for environmental issues, due to the excessive amount of vessels in the Baltic Sea, her sound work on this project was a somewhat accurate depiction of how that manifests itself for the wildlife and just sonically in general. Her work with water and underwater sound is brilliant, it shows us as a listener just how deep the sonic power is of water and oceans

As my piece is about DIY sound culture and pirate radio, I have been reading the books London’s pirate pioneers with going into detail about the ethos and reason behind the whole pirate radio system in London. Reading this was useful to me as it told stories of radio stations like Rinse and London Weekend Radio & how these radio stations manifested themselves to become spaces for the disenfranchised people of London they became a place for sonic expression to flow freely. Geenius from Rinse FM remains a large inspiration of mine to this day

You can’t stop the rain

– soul radio London pirate radio

Osquello Interview

What was the DIY sound culture that you experienced through your dad?

Blah blah

How did it affect you as a person and as a creative?

Blah 

-soundsystem culture

-king tubby

-origins of it all

In seventies Jamaica, in the inner city neighbourhoods of Kingston  and in countries like Trinidad and Guyana       music and instrumentation was a key part of everyday life for almost everyone in society. In the studio producers like king tubby and Lee scratch Perry carved out a sonic universe unheard in mainstream western music, they used of reverb and tape echo effects to manipulate reggae music to sound like a trance like state, this came from a DIY culture where these engineers used western musical engineering equipment in a different way, they looked at these tools as instruments after they mastered there controls, instead of using it as a way to clean up the sound they used it as a way to exaggerate and create new feelings and emotions through sound. This one of the most beautiful things I find through DIY culture, it carves a space for artists to create new worlds within there fields without the boxes of mainstream pressure 

Lewisham Rock – piece I made 

(House & garage)

In the late 90’s and early 2000’s pirate radio took on a new form, it became a new haven for the expression and musical release for poor and marginalised communities to express there pain and strife through music made in home studios on basic musical equipment and computers, this was then mixed with the dub plate and sound system culture of there West Indian forefathers and made into the culture that we now know as Grime and Garage music. It took elements of the booming sub bass heard in reggae, the breakbeat music of soul and funk and combined it with a fast pace electronic edge, different producers from different musical upbringings like jazz and soul combined these elements with there beats to create there own individual styles within these genres.

Key radio stations within this world include.

Rinse FM

De Ja Vu FM 

(Play DOCHI X JKARRI BALAMII)

-grime song 

-streets

-poverty

-breaking point 

Who am I?

(Excerpt from one of my radio sets)

– merging of all the culture 

– a product of my people

– a product of love

The Future…

I am pretty happy with this audio script as it aligns well with the overall radio concept of my piece ‘INFINITY FM’, this is because it has structure where there needs to be but it also loose enough so the overall feeling of the piece won’t be too rigid, it is also not overly academic which fits the nature of what I am talking about and the overall concept at hand. I look forward to interviewing Osquello and going through with the process.

One of the main concepts of my Audio paper is the tribute to sound system culture in London, this is where my musical upbringing comes from and this is where I learnt who I and my people are within music.

I made this piece called Lewisham Rock which I will include in my audio paper, in response to this culture that I know and love.

I might use some of these foley sounds I recorded as percussive elements in my audio piece

Intro with classic street soul song 

– soul radio London pirate radio

Osquello Interview

What was the DIY sound culture that you experienced through your dad?

Blah blah

How did it affect you as a person and as a creative?

Blah 

-soundsystem culture

-king tubby

-origins of it all

I

Play a piece I made 

(House & garage)

 Talk 

Rinse FM

De Ja Vu FM 

(Play DOCHI X JKARRI BALAMII)

-grime song 

-streets

-poverty

-breaking point 

Who am I?

(Excerpt from one of my radio sets)

– merging of all the culture 

– a product of my people

– a product of love

The Future…

This podcast was an intriguing journey through different sound art concepts, with such amazing orators like Yasiin Bey and Dave Chapelle at the helm not much wrong can be done. They breezed through cultural topics on racial issues, comedy, relationships and music in a cohesive yet abstract way which I found particularly beautiful. It is the way they used sound bites, field recordings and sound effects to create an audio world that both compliments the subject matter at hand whilst also providing a genuinely intriguing and captivating listening experience. This is something I will strive to do within my audio paper, as I believe the main concept that draws me to the format of an audio paper is the new potential to create new sensory worlds within the text to compliment what you are saying/doing.

The use of sound to create space is what Jazz is and what sound is also. It is the alchemy of worlds, creating real life worlds through our ears. This is something Nala does amazingly , this is is the first real experience Ive had that I’ve really enjoyed a true fusion of ambient synth sound design stuff/ jazz , I think nala does it so beautifully on this record. The collision of worlds that takes place is something so amazing and dream like, I love her use of effects on her harp ( I take heavy influence from this on the guitar processing in my score) to create textures and ambience. Eddie Hick smashes it on drums and just the overall use of synths in Jazz is something that is usually used in a cliche way but the way Sinephro does it on this record is impeccable.