Category: Sound studies and Aural Cultures

For me personally, I have dedicated myself to the pursuit of music, and currently do not plan to try get a full time job after finishing university, I plan to maintain a part time job for as long as I need to, and balance my music and sound work, with the part time job, and… Continue reading research into future career possibilities

I found this guest lecture very inspiring, in Christina’s approach to sound, art, performance and exploration. It was very interesting for me to hear about her journey in sound art and in her artistic practice as a whole. One particular part at the end of the lecture, she said that her standards for performance are… Continue reading guest lecture – Christina Wheeler

After thinking about the various facets of the ideas I have been having about this unit and project, I was trying to decide how best to execute a creative sound piece that would include all of the various ideas and points I am trying to make with this unit. Part of the inspiration behind the… Continue reading creative sound piece idea development

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)

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}

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

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

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

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’ 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