Week Review (Nov. 15th)

Throughout this week, I have been able to gain a new perspective on my work and moved forward with new ideas. Gaining knowledge of the doppler effect is something that has aided my spatialized project. Visualizing comets and stars traveling from speaker to speaker, and recreating them in sound, I am able to expand my vocabulary and research further into the doppler effect to aid in the “movement” I envision for this project. On Wednesday this week, I realized a parallel for this piece that I can use to progress with during production. During a sound exercise, we used the reverb of the room to try to spatialize and track sound sources with our eyes closed. My lecturer described his method of “following the reverb-tails” in his mind when I thought of the comet-tails I have been referencing in the Book of Miracles. A minor detail to progress this piece, but it almost gives me permission to really detail the reverb of this project and create these comet/reverb tails for the listener.

As well, on Tuesday our course had a visit to the British Library, where we received two lectures pertaining to the history of recording and how the sonic archives on location are kept and made available to the public. Learning this I plan to look further into the archives to see what is available and explore for future projects (This will be very helpful for my upcoming audio paper).

Pertaining to my audio paper, I am still struggling to pick a specific topic of my choice. The open-ended nature of this project intimidated me and I struggled to understand exactly how I should maneuver a topic of choice into an audio paper, but after a meeting with my tutor, I understand more. Currently, I am looking into general areas of what relates and fuels to my practice and finding a specific topic I can question, and work into a scripted audio-paper. My concept and topic are still very much much in the works (it has taken me a while to fully gain a grasp on this brief) but I am currently sorting this out and doing the research required.

In response to the question this week, “Who inspired your project?”, my mind instantly goes to a few different artists and pieces in particular. Ana Roxanne and Malibu have been two artists I have been referencing back to lately. (I have returned to Ana Roxanne many a time, I know) The slow drones and harmonic movement of their works is something I admire so much and would love to learn to harness in a spatialized setting. The texture created in both of their works is soft and heavy, it moves and drifts away within a melody. An alternate inspiration can be seen in more detail in one of my previous blog posts; the Augsburg Book of Miracles has been a huge inspiration for this piece and its progression. It is essentially the visualization I have for this piece.