Week four: Experiments with speakers, cymbals and a scanner

16Jul10

Today I’ve been experimenting, trying out some ideas I’d already planned and playing with objects in the space. First I tested out an idea based on the technique used in Alvin Lucier’s I am Sitting in a Room, as also used by Jacob Kirkegaard in his recordings at Chernobyl. Basic idea was to record the […]

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Tags: Contact Mics, Environmental Sound, Excavation, Field Recording, Local Artists, Photographs, Recording, Rusted Metal, Scan, Sculpture, Sound

Scan of broken record pieces

14Jul10

This week I bought a portable flatbed scanner with which to make some images on site. I’m planning to use it to scan the internal “walls” of some of the test excavations on site, to show up the bands of different types of soul, burnt matter, rust, coal, etc. Below is a test image of […]

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Tags: Broken Records, Mosaic, Scan, Shellac, Textures