Electronic music and women – Daphne Blake Daphne Blake Oram was a British composer and electronic musician born in the 20th century who created a technique for creating electronic music that uses sound drawing. She is also the first woman to design and create an electronic instrument. Her adventure with music begins from an early …
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Isadora Duncan – story of modern dance She was born in San Francisco in 1877 or 1878 as Angela Isadora Duncan, and from 1899 she lived in Europe. The bold artist rejected the classic white pack (tutu) and ballet shoes. She danced dressed in an airy Greek tunic, barefoot and with her hair loose, in …
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Pina is said to have revolutionized ballet. The first one combined dance with other arts: acting, music, song, creating a new genre – dance theatre. What was most remarkable, however, was her method of working. She used to say, “I’m looking for people who dance, not dancers.” During rehearsals, sitting in a cloud of cigarette …
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Immersive sound a visual art- RYOJI IKEDA: THE TRANSFINITE The artist takes viewers on a journey through a maze-like studio space, forcing them to question perception, time and space. Participants were able to experience, among other things, the feeling of entering a black hole… Ikeda is known for challenging the human ears and mind.
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Visit to Swiss Church, London. pictures from Google.
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Liliane Lijn – “I Want People to See Sound” An interesting clip by Tate on Liliane Lijn about the relationship in art between sound and visual arts. The oscillating cone piece was quite interesting to see, especially the way she links it to physical femininity. Whilst discussing her kinetic revolving cylinders piece, she says “What …
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Upcoming Assignment Brainstorming One of the goals in my presentation is to show the research of how other people’s work inspired me to create my own project. I want to show the influence of the visiting practitioners on my work too, as well as my own research as evidence for me to create my own …
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Linda’s Musical Visual Diagram I did a little more research into the creative processes of Linda Perhacs and I came across an image of a diagram, or musical map. This image shows her notes on how she experienced the ideas for one of her songs. https://kenleephotography.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/songoftheplanets-graphicarrangement.jpg Above and below are two images of Linda’s scribblings, …
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Music and Visuals: Linda Perhacs and Synesthesia A fellow student of mine sent me a short documentary about Linda Perhacs during a discussion about my sound / visual project ideas. The relationship between sound and visual arts is something I’ve wanted to take a deeper look into since researching the work of Kandinsky. Linda Perhacs, …