Posts Tagged ‘Environmental Sound’
Visitor Centre opens on Friday 17th September, 6pm – 9pm, and is open daily, 11am to 4pm from Saturday 18th September to Sunday 3rd October. The show is the culmination of my 10 week residency at The Rea Garden, a former industrial site in Birmingham. It features a sound installation, excavations and found objects and an […]
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Tags: Environmental Sound, Event, Excavation, Exhibition, Field Recording, Found Objects, Sound, Sound Sculpture
At Eastside Projects this Thursday I’ll be giving a talk on my practice and my residency at the Rea Garden. The event starts at 6:30pm and is open to the public. I’ll be talking through some of my past projects, and discussing my research for the residency, some of the activities I’ve undertaken, and my […]
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Tags: Aritst's Talk, Broken Records, Environmental Sound, Event, Local Artists, Multichannel Audio, Reflective Writing, Research, Sound, Sound Sculpture
Info on the first day of the first Open Sound Group collaborative workshop can be found here. Seems silly to repost the same information, so below are a couple of photos of some of the recording experiments and techniques I used today.
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Tags: Collaboration, Contact Mics, Environmental Sound, Excavation, Field Recording, Local Artists, Recording
Rain at the Rea Garden
Got quite a lot done today, but mostly experimenting so not much tangible to show. Still, although it meant running for shelter I got a nice recording of the rain from within the shelter of the shed.
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Tags: Environmental Sound, Field Recording, Recording
In some recent recording and a recent live performance I’ve used a microphone hung out of the window to pick up environmental sound. This is partly as a nod to John Cage’s 4’33” – where the silence of the performers emphasises the sounds inside and outside the room – and partly as an attempt to […]
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Tags: Environmental Sound, Field Recording, Research, Sound, Sound Sculpture
Over the weekend I visited the Baltic in Gateshead where there was an exhibition of work by artists influecned by John Cage, called Cage Mix. I was pleased to see a work by Berlin based artist Katja Strunz who makes, amongst other things, sculptures which often feature kinetic elements and sound. “Katja Strunz has a constellation […]
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Tags: Environmental Sound, Kinetic Sculpture, Multichannel Audio, Research, Sculpture, Sound Sculpture
During my first visit to the site I made several audio recordings. On the one below the rain, river Rea and local bird life are all audible, underpinned with the more urban sounds of the traffic.
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Tags: Environmental Sound, Field Recording, Research, Sound
