on Sunday the 15th of May I had the pleasure of witnessing a performance by Sun Ra’s Arkestra (under direction of Marshall Allen). This concert was very life-changing for me, and I feel that it was the single greatest musical performance that I have witnessed in my entire life, (possibly the greatest I will ever… Continue reading Sun Ra’s Arkestra (under direction of Marshall Allen)
Author: Maximilian Hombach
recent sound arts activities {in the real world}
I have been very busy in the past few weeks performing many shows with friends of mine, such as a sound arts show with singer/ musician ‘nwakke’ performing live improvised singing over the set, a SPEW & friends live improvisation show (which was myself and Tony Bontana as ‘SPEW’ and various musical collaborators (& friends)… Continue reading recent sound arts activities {in the real world}
issues in process of collaboration unit
Our main issues in the process of this unit have been with contacting the students we were collaborating with. The issues that arose include no access to the finishes game, or any videos of the game to use for our hand in or for inspiration when creating the sounds. Another issue that has slowed down… Continue reading issues in process of collaboration unit
collaboration: how it went
Amongst ourselves in our group, we created a shared notes file where we wrote down (level by level) a list of all the sounds that we needed to collect for the project. We then spoke about which of these sounds we were each able to/ going to do, and ticked them off one by one… Continue reading collaboration: how it went
collaboration: blog post – reflections
It has been a confusing yet interesting journey thus far on this collaborations unit. We have only managed to have very limited communication with the MA students that we have been collaborating with. To try overcome this problem, we have had to be restricted to communication only amongst ourselves in order to try work out… Continue reading collaboration: blog post – reflections
ideas for cultural studies essay topics
I think I will start with overview of overarching theme of the essay, and the overall idea of the analogy between rhythm and relationships, and how peoples perceptions of these vary very significantly dependant on both their previous exposure to/ understanding of different rhythms and time signatures. Bring this into the broader analogy of cultures… Continue reading ideas for cultural studies essay topics
quotes for cultural studies
Black Noise, Tricia Rose, 1994 – Chapter 3: Soul Sonic Forces – Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Practice in Rap Music. {Wesleyan University press} This chapter was one of the initial sparks of the idea I have for the cultural studies essay, in its discussion of the western traditional view of musical complexity and composition,… Continue reading quotes for cultural studies
update on practical sound work
Recently I have been fairly busy with various different sound work, including producing stripped back instrumentals to play out live for London-based singer muva of Earth, also producing an ambient background track for live improvisation for Birmingham-based band I am a part of called SPEW. For the SPEW set, I also spent some time preparing… Continue reading update on practical sound work
Milford Graves
When thinking about my topic for ‘Contemporary issues in sound arts’, I was thinking a lot about peoples perception of rhythms and the change of perception that comes with understanding, but also the difference in perception based on the mind frame that the piece is heard with. Milford Graves is someone who always pushed for… Continue reading Milford Graves
Comfort in regularity
‘comfort in regularity’ is something within the idea of ‘the relationship between rhythm and relationships’ that I would like to explore further in how it relates to the attitudes and actions within certain cultures. This was sparked by the realisation of this correlation, when thinking about Western European cultures love for regularity in music and… Continue reading Comfort in regularity