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Week 25: CSP Element 2
Journal: This week, I wanted to move on from synthesis for a bit and try to work out how to incorporate some of my foley recordings in. Taking inspiration from Blackhaine and Richie Culver’s ‘Did U Cum Yet?’ A/V piece, I manipulated one of my foley recordings in Simpler to loop, after pitching it up.…
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Ecka Mordecai Guest Lecture
04/05/23, London College of Communication. I found Ecka’s lecture to be intensely interesting and though provoking. The lecture was a good balance between personal anecdotes, explanations and studies of her work as well as some of her inventions; particularly the egg flute. Ecka has been creating egg flutes for years, and she is believed to…
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Rory Salter Guest Lecture
04/05/23, London College of Communication In this lecture, Salter talked us through his past works and practices that he is developing in real time, amongst personal anecdotes that provide fitting context to his works. He also briefly discussed the idea of ethics and morals in field recording, an important element of his artistry. Rory began…
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John Wynne Guest Lecture
12th January 2023, London College of Communication I found John Wynne’s lecture very interesting. I think that, socially, his work is very important and in my opinion drew vastly on the idea of human experience and emotion; creating pieces that engage with morality and sense of place mainly. One of my favourite installation pieces that…
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Week 24: CSP Element 2
This week in class, we learnt about analog synthesis, the importance in the nuances of analog synthesis and techniques such patching between different modules/instruments. In my opinion, although I find analog synthesis very interesting and I understand why it is preferred by some people, I prefer the quicker flow of working in a programme like…
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Week 23: CSP Element 2
This week, in our lesson we explored different types of synthesis in the digital realm. For example, we went through the basics of FM synthesis and subtractive synthesis, whilst also diving into more interesting styles such as granular and additive. After this lesson, in my own work, I wanted to synthesis a couple of different…
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Week 20: Psychoacoustics and Auraldiversity
Note: I wasn’t in for this lesson, so I am ‘teaching myself’ from the slideshow and making notes in my own time In this lesson, I got to explore the idea of psychoacoustics (your brain perceiving a sound, and acting upon it once it is received through your ear) and auraldiversity (which draws parallels to…
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Week 19: DIY Cultures, Artistic Identity and Write-Up
Throughout this lesson, we spent time exploring and researching DIY cultures, specifically labels that specialise in, for example, avant-garde music, freeform music, and music that comes from marginalised groups. We learnt about what it means to be an artist and how we should (or shouldn’t) label ourselves and our identify. We also discussed artist statements…
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Week 18: Text Scores and The Voice
In this lesson, we explored the idea of text scores and concrete poetry, as well as the use of voice. Before this lesson, I was very unfamiliar with concrete poetry. From memory, concrete poetry is a form of poetry that relies less on the lyrical content of a poem, but focuses heavily on the graphic…
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Week 17: Collective Curation and Graphic Scores
In this session, we began a new module and learnt the basics surrounding collaboration, collective curation, and in the second half, the use of graphic scores. Whilst discussing collective curation, we had to decide how to release our compilation. We landed on the conclusion of releasing our work digitally since it would be cheaper and…