Category: BA Second year

Slauson Malone (aka Jasper Marsalis) Originally a left-field hip-hop producer but has slowly moved more into experimental “Genre-neglecting” music that is hard to fit into boxes as it is so individual and varied. He explores many different sonic areas and feelings and goes between harmony and dissonance and intense and peaceful moments seamlessly and beautifully.… Continue reading musical influence 1: Slauson Malone

I really enjoyed the guest lecture by Alex De Little, and his perspective on listening as a way of thinking about relationally, like how humans relate to one another and to the world external to themselves, and how they are situated within it, as well as being a part of broader ecologies and environments. Something… Continue reading Alex De Little – guest lecture

I found Andrew’s lecture my favourite out of all the guest lectures so far. His approach to improvisation in his work is very interesting and relatable for me as its a big part of my practice also. His willingness to explore and try things such as layering different rhythms in various ways to see what… Continue reading Andrew Pierre Hart guest lecture

Im not sure if my portfolio really does relate to any of the themes or issues in the guest lectures that I’ve seen (so far) this year. I’ve found that a lot of the guest lectures were quite interesting and based on interesting practices and ideas, however they were all about something, like our relationship… Continue reading how my portfolio relates to issues/ themes in guest lectures

This is a 2d representational diagram of the hypothetical field of my taste, however in reality this field would have an almost infinite number of axes, as they would be going in all different directions in a 3-dimensional manor, as different aspects of music show different kinds of characteristics and have differing degrees of relative… Continue reading The axes in the hypothetical field of my taste

The practice based research I have done for my portfolio prototype has included trial and error of testing different microphones (for which type of microphone captures different kinds of sounds to my taste), and also exploring genre and boundaries of taste through playing, which has been interesting for me, and I feel is a constant… Continue reading practice based research in portfolio work

the yin side being the dark side/ the equivalent of every colour all at once, I wanted this side to be the intense side of dissonance, chaos and heaviness, so this is the side with drums I recorded and that has saxophone and distorted guitar on it. I have now started to put these parts… Continue reading starting to put together the ‘yin’ side of the project

in order to reach the full expression of freedom in terms of my saxophone playing I wanted to be outside in the middle of the night with nobody around so that I felt freedom specially and mentally. To do this I walked with my sax to the top of one tree hill in the middle… Continue reading Recording saxophone

in a recent studio session with my friend Kendra/ nwakke, and my friend George/ spruce, I had set up a 4 channel mic in the middle of the room to pick up 360 degrees around it, and I played guitar while kendra sang and spruce played bass guitar, I then sampled this recording and made… Continue reading recent studio sessions

For my second portfolio piece of the two, I plan to explore the idea of sound for screen and scoring for short films with not much direct narrative or storyline. The idea of the short film I want to create and score is based on subconscious expression. I believe the most natural and most subconscious… Continue reading portfolio piece #2: planning development