Category: Sound studies and Aural Cultures

For my contemporary issues in sound arts assignment, I have decided to focus on the relationship between rhythm and relationships. I had been thinking about this idea for about a month before we started speaking about this unit, and after being briefed on the unit I realised that it was perhaps something that would fit… Continue reading the relationship between rhythm and relationships

I have now finished all elements of my aural cultures assignment, and I am happy with the finished work. It is not as in depth or detailed as I would have liked, but if I put any moree information in I think it would be too cramped and fast paced, I think allowing breathing time… Continue reading aural cultures final reflection

Now that I have (almost) finished the creation of my audio paper, I feel as though I have recognised the difficulty of a task that I had initially assumed would not be too hard. I had figured that because I already know all the information I want to talk about, and because I am constantly… Continue reading creation of audio paper reflection

Another form of research for me was an interview from 2008 of producers/ DJ’s/ Innovators Ras G and DJ Sacred. This is an interview I have rewatched many times now, and that I learnt a lot from, as well as hearing a lot of views and points that resonated very heavily with my view on… Continue reading aural cultures research 2

My initial research for the aural cultures paper I am creating on the splayed movement, was going back to a video a friend of mine had made, of the first London ‘Splayworld’ show I had put on with my friend Tony Bontana, as well as the video for the second Splayworld show. During these videos… Continue reading aural cultures research

During the class crit, hearing what other peoples papers were like and hearing the feedback from the other students was very helpful in getting an idea of what it is we’re trying to do with these audio papers. Also, showing my own audio paper in its current stage was also of course useful, in that… Continue reading crit feedback reflection (aural cultures)

Reason for writing – explaining splayed as an introduction to it and discussing the ideas and concepts Problem – the the understating of the destructive construction of the splayed movement and music Methodology – describe the types of evidence used in the research in the audio paper (references/ interviews from splayworld shows and different traces… Continue reading instructional score for audio paper

I have now organised and chopped some audio samples in my project for my audio paper and planned how I will organise/ talk through the paper. The audio samples are from interviews that were outside an event that I run with a friend of mine called ‘Splayworld’ which is an event that is based around… Continue reading aural cultures audio paper development

Since deciding to focus my audio paper on the hip hop sub-genre ‘splayed’, I have had some thought on how to approach this idea. I plan to use excerpts of interview footage that was recorded outside an event Tony Bontana and I run called ‘Splayworld’ (which focuses, as the name suggests, primarily on this splayed… Continue reading Aural cultures: audio paper development

The combination of turntablism and sound arts is not something I had previously thought much about before watching this interesting talk by sound artist and dj ‘NikNak’. Her use of having field recordings and strange sounds on vinyl, which she scratched along with other instrumentalists who were improvising reminded me of the classic footage from… Continue reading visiting practitioner reflection: NikNak