Posts Tagged ‘Field Recording’
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
Artist’s talk summary
Below is a breif summary of my artist’s talk at Eastside Projects last week. Despite forgetting the laws of thermodynamics and John Cage’s infamous quote, “music is the organisation of sound,” the talk seemed to be well received. Many thanks for those who came to hear it, and to Liz at EP and Arlene for […]
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On Thursday 9th September, A Site of No Special Interest opens at Solihull Gallery. The show is a history so far of The Rea Garden artists’ project space in Birmingham, told through documentation and original artworks. As current Resident Artist at The Rea Garden I’ve submitted a new work, Three Artifacts. The interactive installation consists […]
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Tags: dubplates, Event, Exhibition, Field Recording, Multichannel Audio, 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
This week I’ve been making some more recordings, including recording the sound of the spade as I’m digging using contact mics. The contact mics are attached to the spade with silver gaffer tape. This first set up worked ok at first but the jolting of the digging movements caused problems with the recorder, so I […]
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Tags: Contact Mics, Excavation, Field Recording, Recording, Sound
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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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
