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 was very eye opening. I am very interested in hardware and equipment especially in relation to live performance, this is something I wish to explore further. My technical knowledge is still rather minimal but hands on activities like this clear things in my head, they also show the endless possibilities of performance.

Sonically and visually the performance was very harrowing and intense. The performers bar Jose were sporting black pillowcases over there heads. To a student strolling through LCC this may have appeared to be an industrial emo-Guantanamo Bay ritual. I wasn’t too sure what the pillowcases really meant but it looked cool. Over the course of 40 mins the samples and layers spiralled and danced around the 5.1 system, the cacophony of noise bounced off the high walls, reverberating down the hallway, one manager even complained.