Category: portfolio

For my first piece I have decided that I will create a project that attempts to reach the furthest parameters of the intangible field of my taste in music, in order to explore this field and explore what the edges of this field sound like. I started to think about what kind of axes this… Continue reading portfolio piece #1: planning development

I encountered some issues when recording these drums for the project, as some of the recordings didn’t save for some reason, and showed up as missing files when I opened the file afterwards, however I managed to still make use of the recordings that did save, and have used them to make 3 tracks so… Continue reading recording drums for portfolio project

I have now started on the album taijitu, by recording drums at pirate studios, I plan to build the chaos side of the album by using drums which I recorded playing as intensely and freely as I could, and I will then record some layers of distorted guitar over these drums, and then go to… Continue reading portfolio work so far

For my two pieces for my portfolio, I know that I want one of the pieces to be an album. The idea is based on my appreciations of labels like Warp Records that manage to have a unique label sound whilst still having a large variety of music from all sides of the musical spectrum… Continue reading thoughts on portfolio pieces

Improvisation  Layering to build ideas Exploring the intangible field of my taste – finding the boundaries – dancing on the edge of them I am interested in this because of an idea Brian Eno spoke about – the field of his taste and finding points in that area that he didn’t know were there –… Continue reading What is the central area of praxis relating to your prototype