LINES – An Interactive Sound Art Exhibition In preparation for my upcoming visual assignment, I was doing some research on sound and visual exhibition pieces and I came across this video. LINES is an interactive sound arts exhibition by Swedish composer Anders Lind. For the project, coloured lines are attached to the wall, the floor, …
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“When I Listen, I Have to be Quiet” – Jacob Kirkegaard I stumbled upon this short documentary of Jacob Kirkegaard, a sound recorder and artist. I found it interesting to hear him talk about how he has been working with sound since the age of 6. His fascination with sounds of the world that began …
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Theatre of Epidaurus I’ve been thinking about working with a large space sonically for my upcoming assignment project. I’ve always been fascinated by spacial acoustics and the ways in which we perceive sound depending on the surrounding space. This interest guided me to research sound in large spaces which led me to learn about the …
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Thoughts on Maze Tools I’ve been looking into the visual-creating software Maze Tools to learn about how I will use it to create my own project. This is something very out of my comfort zone; up until now I’ve only ever used DAW softwares to create sound digitally, never visuals. I’ve always been more drawn …
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A look into Clavier à Lumières (“Keyboard with Lights”) A “Clavier á Lumiére,” (Keyboard with Light) is an instrument which plays not only music, but light. Prior to looking into this, my knowledge of this was very limited. I remember receiving a gift as a child which was a small keyboard with individual coloured lights …
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Wassily KandinskyI’ve been looking into the work of Wassily Kadinsky, a Russian painter and art theorist and one of the great pioneers of abstract art. One of Kadinsky’s missions was to search for a new language of expression, relating to multi sensory art, or the symbiosis of arts. He gave his famous oil paintings titles …
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Impact of music on images (film) and how it manipulates the emotive response Recently, I attended a screening of Park Chan Wok’s 2022 film “Decision To Leave” (헤어질 결심) Whilst watching this, I had recently been thinking about how sound effects the emotive response in film, a topic that came as a result of looking …
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Pawel Mykietyn Pawel Mykietyn is a music composer and sound artist from Poland. Personally, he is an inspiration to me and I’ve loved many of his works for some time. I recently watched this short interview-style film that explores his work at a great detail and uncovers more of his life and his thought processes …
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Lena Ortega (Lena Lee) Lena Ortega is a sound artist from Mexico who focusses on the relationship between nature and culture. I watched her visitor practitioner episode and thoroughly enjoyed the meditational practice she took us through. The practice required us to focus on our breaths, to find the rhythm of our pulse and then …
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A look into Hong-Kai Wang Hong-Kai Wan is a sound artist from Taiwan. She works with sound conceptually and explores the construction of new social space. Her work is highly collaborative and relies heavily on a process-driven approach. I looked into her project “Music While You Work” which aimed to analyse the background noises that …