Reflecting upon my classes Creative Sound performance: Due to my absence from the previous lesson I was unfortunately not involved in the actual sonic part of the performance. However witnessing and helping out with the setup of a live performance … Continue reading →

Photos from my day of recording back at home.If you can call it that… All sounds were recorded using a shotgun mic and H4N recorder. Originally I setup to record outside but the feedback from the wind forced me inside. … Continue reading →

Following the feedback from my previous assignment, I didn’t want the piece to begin so intensely. Basing the structure of my piece around the three Bardo’s from the Tibetan Book of the Dead; Bardo 1: Entry, Peaceful Bardo 2: Mayhem, … Continue reading →

Although my intentions for the majority of the percussion were to be created through the act of destruction, this has shifted. I found trying to assemble tribal/ritual like percussion in this manner to be particularly challenging. Also considering my intentions … Continue reading →

In the book The Recording Angel by Evan Eisenberg I’m drawn to a section that reads; ‘But if a record is a time capsule and a phonograph is a time machine, they are also so in an unaccustomed sense. A … Continue reading →

Due to circumstances very much under my control I have had to streamline my Auto-Destructive idea right down. Instead of putting emphasis on improvisation, Ron Hardy and responding to imagery, I have shifted the focus to constructing a piece almost … Continue reading →

Here is a number of visual references for me to look upon when producing my piece. My original intentions was to use this as stimuli while improvising however this has changed. I still feel the imagery important because it can … Continue reading →