Author: Flora Braddell
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LONGPLAYER- Gallery visit.
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Jem Finer’s Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition that started on the first moment of the year 2000 and will end on the first second of the year 3000. It is composed with 234 singing bowls and is designed to stay relevant for every period of time it is playing. When listening…
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Sound Walk.
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7/10/2024 Having never done a sound walk before I found this experience extremely calming, your vision provides an enormous amount of stimulation that your brain is so used to, however when your vision is taken away from you, everything calms down. Your focus first moves onto your movement, at first it felt like every step…
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Key words.
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SOUND COLLAGE– Sound collage to me, is the breaking up and reconstruction of sounds, taking one composed sound and creating an entirely new one from it. I have experimented with sound collage before, using peoples voices to create one continuous story. It’s fun, and definitely something I would like to continue working with. The reason…
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Personal Vision Statement.
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My work, previously to this course has been film based, working with mixed media specifically, stop motion. My practice has gone through a whole plethora of medians. Starting with drawing and painting, moving to film, and now to music and sound. Its only as of last year, January, that my interest for music sparked, I…
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LINKED: Gallery visit.
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28/10/2024 Launched in 2003 by artist Graeme Miller, LINKED is a radio installation installed on lampposts across 3 miles of North East London. It is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Rd in the 1990s which involved the demolition of over 400 buildings, most of which were homes. Like a ghost…
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POST MODERNITY.
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Post modernity emerged as a cultural movement in the mid 20th century, post war, but started to gain popularity around the 60s and 70s. Post modernity was not the end of modernity, but simply a continuation of modern thinking just in a different way. Moving away from traditional practices, post modernity focused on the relationship…
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Our place.
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My place, your place, our place. As I look around me at the four walls that encapsulate me, I cant help but notice the slightest of sounds I have become accustomed to. Footsteps above me that once created the most annoying of sounds, that creaking noise, is now unconsciously shut out, ignored. But it’s in…
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MODERNITY- Musique concrète.
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Considered a modernist movement in music, emerging around the 1940s, Musique contrète is a type of composition using recordings as raw material, which are then manipulated and edited. It can consist of recordings of voices, instruments, your environment and/or electronic/mechanical sounds, instead of relying solely on instruments to create the music. Musique concrète is composed…
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Introduction to Sound Arts.
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The ambiguity of the term sound arts is what first attracted me to it and why I chose this course. It being such an open form of art, made me excited and inspired to produce work, and understand where I want to go with this work. It is only as of recently that I have found an enthusiasm for sound and music, and although I am new to the practice, I can feel it now has huge relevance to…