Moving
July 8th 2011 04:30
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For various reasons I will have to move my BLOG. I will now be found at:http://audiotopsy.wordpress.com
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PART 2
July 3rd 2011 06:01
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Scherzophobia
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A Radiophonic Soap Opera
Episode 2 is up and listenable. I seem to have taken a more flippant, tongue-in-cheek approach this time, being a big fan of "light entertainment" And we can certainly do with a little bit of that these days! Not that I'm one to don the political mantle but thought it rather appropriate to kick off with the opening fanfare from that rather ancient and obscure film "A Yank in Libya" before we get to hear "Hills" promise the impossible. I must say I actually rather like her so it's not attended as a character slur ... I do seem to have a fascination with the vocalisations of the fairer sex - particularly when these is no language attached and all the coding and symbolism removed. A reference to our prehistoric past when vocal sounding communicated emotional complexity..... Are those girls crying, laughing, having an orgasm or in need of addressing serious mental health issues - or all of the above.... And the first toe dipping into mediated Westernised sound colonising the space of non westernised aboriginal cultures - what sort of collisions can this create......? JAM radio
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Scherzophobia
May 26th 2011 05:35
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A Radiophonic Soap Opera
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PART 1
The first episode of Scherzophobia: A Radiophonic Soap Opera is now up and Streamable care of the delightful people at JAM radio. This ongoing saga (as everything is...) is intended to be a bit of light relief from the rigors of academia. It is an exploration of humour through sound outside of the mechanisms of word-play and the coding of language, whilst exploring my current pleasure in the art of Bricolage! And, as I have no supervisor requiring a scholarly approach to this project (''But, where's the research to back it up!?!?'') I simply go with my gut feeling...if it makes me laugh (and usually I haven't a clue why) I'll go with it. I think it's rather funny, whereas others tell me it's twisted! Hmmmmmm...TUNE IN!
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RELATIONSHIP AND THE DEMISE OF THE OBJECT
May 3rd 2011 04:23
"the role of artworks is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real, whatever scale chosen by the artist" Nicolas BourriaudRelational Art theorist.--------My sound-based arts practice is currently concerned with the shift of focus from the sonic art object, to the act of relationship as aesthetic. Upcoming documentation will outline and connect both my practice and the broader frame within which it should be understood. Over the last few decades we have seen the emergence of the genres Transmission and Telematic Art - the methodology of both often being informed by 1: concepts of space - engagement from any distance both immediate and far simultaneously, and 2: redefining concepts of author and audience; all who participate are involved in authorship creating a form that is impossible to mediate to a passive audience. By contrast, traditional Western art music practice places the identity and intention of author and performance of the end product as primary[1]. Literary theorist Roland Barthes foresaw the shifting role of 21st century artist to "curator" - the author is no longer the creator - he/she is a medium of creation and we are now seeing the accessible and malleable nature of new media facilitating this. [2] Interactive installation use of hybrid media sets the stage for the liberation of an audience from anchored passive recipient to the active engagement of community. During the late 1970's and early 1980's pioneering communication technologies saw experimental projects such as La Plissure du Texte. This piece involved multiple "stations" around the globe engaging in a networked event. Nobody knew exactly how many individuals were involved and no one individual was able to know the entirety of the piece. Each participant could only experience his or her version [3]. The orientation shifts from immediate sensory experience, associated with physically proximate art practices, to the perception of the distal and disembodied as well as the relational, all of which are core to transmission based mediums; in other words, the act of composition lies within participant interaction and their implicit relationships.My current work explores how this situation and the aesthetics deriving from it inform me as a practitioner within the medium of sound. The generative and emergent behaviour that arises from community relationship as a form of "composition" and of particular interest the desire to shift focus from the traditional role of aurality as an object of aesthetic expression to an exploration of the biological function of the audible environment as a means of mapping navigating and entering into dialogue with habitat.[1] Moira Roth & Jonathan D Katz: Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage [2] Lev Manovich : The Language of New Media [3] Heidi Grundmann: interview Really Long Link
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