Category: BA Second year

My next steps towards my professional future are finishing my proposals for grants for the various projects I’m carrying out with Thingness and life is beautiful, and following up on the internship opportunity with Lex Records. Also finishing the life is beautiful website and album and carrying out the shows as I have planned will… Continue reading Professional futures: next steps

My current activities/ progress towards my professional future, has mostly consisted of working towards the development of my label life is beautiful, continuing my creative practice as a musician recording, and performing, as well as continuing my djing (I have a show on Balamii radio, and a show on LooseFM, which I plan to continue),… Continue reading current activities/ progress towards professional futures

Thingness is an experimental theatre company founded by my close friend and spiritual warrior Amber Joy aka ‘the narrator’. She puts on productions that combine dance, music, performance art and storytelling, and we are currently working on a performance of a piece we wrote together called ‘I wish for you’. The piece will feature the… Continue reading Future aspirations: Experimental theatre {thingness}

My future aspirations as an artist (aloisius) are currently to carry out this album ‘life is beautiful’ which I spoke on in the last blog post I did, and to complete that album to the highest possible standard. This project will be executively produced by me, however also featuring some production work by others from… Continue reading Future aspirations: aloisius

the most vital part of my future aspirations is my plan to create a record label called life is beautiful records. This plan is already in action, and I have already signed 6 people outside of myself to start this project with me, and created a logo and website. The 6 people on the label,… Continue reading future aspirations: Life is Beautiful

over the duration of my time at LCC, we have had some interesting guest lectures come and talk about their practices, some of which I found very useful and some less, but still interesting. I found that when the guest lectures started to be in person it was much more engaging than watching on laptop… Continue reading guest lecture reflections

Over the duration of third year so far, I have further learned about the various considerations of sound arts and installation, as well as further learning what does and doesn’t interest me within sound arts. I also learned about some possible ways of surviving as a sound artist, and further looked into grants, residencies and… Continue reading Course reflections year 3

I very much enjoyed last year, and feel I did learn a lot, however it’s hard to specifically name what I’ve learned and it’s more just opening of mind to the possibilities of sound as art. I also learned a lot about what Sound Art is, which I didn’t know that much of before joining… Continue reading Second year reflections

from my last meeting with my tutor Gareth I have realised the main areas I need to now focus on for my portfolio unit, which is talking/ writing about the 3 main parts of the piece: the improvisational aspect, the intentional lo-fidelity method of recording and the content of the recordings used. I will write… Continue reading portfolio project – album piece contextualisation

Thinking about my professional future, I have been looking at various opportunities and possibilities for my post grad life as a sound artist. One of the 3 opportunities I will write about for my professional futures hand-in is the main project I’m currently focused on. It is an experimental theatre production I have co-written with… Continue reading professional futures