Eucidian dimension + time YourEngagementSequence
40 minute loop
space becomes a pulsating encounter created by movement of sounds modified by the persons movement through space
artificers condemned bulbs
birds eye view – installation destroys that as it re creates the constants
experiential form vs compositional form
Form is the particular temporal experience of the first person subject as they navigate in, through and out of the works frame
Kahlil Joseph – BLKNWS
I stumbled upon this piece of awe inspiring art at the Venice biennale a few years ago , BLKNWS is essentially a parallel dimension universe of afrocentric news through the gaze of a different world. The black experience is documented in a manner that is true and not degrading and artistically surreal yet poignant. This is a big influence on my installation work as I want my work to have a similar effect and show a similar depiction of a similar experience. The ability to present a world of surrealism that exposes more truth and more accurately depicts a real world thing better than the real world is very inspiring to me.
TITLE OF INSTALLATION : ‘PICK AH FUTURE”
A sonic exploration into the Afro Caribbean experience in London through the gaze of a mixed-race gen-z artist. Through the attitude & philosophy of ‘Dub Plunderphonics”
A 4/5 Speaker sound piece (depending on the availability of a sub) accompanied by various visual wall pieces from the afro-london diaspora. The sound piece is composed completely of recycled recordings from my career as a musician, field recordings , important speeches, poetry, soundbites and samples, portraying a loose chronological narrative that reflects and internalises this experience. In multiple cyclical simultaneous cycles.
The philosophy: The philosophy behind this piece is something I have touched in my previous works and is a recurring theme in my practice. This is the honouring of the past, using our past teachings, successes, failures and experiences to carve out a new reality to move forward into. I believe art that resides in this philosophy known in west Africa as ‘Sankofa’ represented by a bird, is where I think my art truly shines.
Contributors to the sound piece would feature words some of my esteemed collaborators like: Nadeem Dingabisi, Lex amor, dochi , Angel Seka , Muva of Earth & Louis Culture.
The name ‘Pick ah future’ takes influence from the dub album ‘Pick a Dub’ by Keith Hudson which is one of the first concept dub albums.
A Drawing of the layout
TECH NEEDED
4 YAMAHA HS7/8 or EQUIVALENT
1 SUB IF POSSIBLE
2 SPEAKERS SCREWED HIGH ON WALL
2 ON STANDS
RASBERRY PIE PLAYING STEMS
NAILS & SCREWS & BLU TAC TO PUT UP ART
WARM ORANGE LIGHT
LIVE ART POSSIBILITY??
VISUAL ARTISTS
Araba Ackon
ANGEL SEKA
I also have kente fabric patterns that can cover any other wall space
GALLERY 4/3 WOULD BE IDEAL.
TIME FRAME
18th-23rd making and finalising
23rd-show mix & aesthetic prep.
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.