Death By Audio is a New York-based guitar pedal company founded by Oliver Ackermann in 2002 as a way to pay for a trip to Europe. They grew organically from their debut pedal, Total Sonic Annihilation, with people requesting more varieties. Ackermann also says that during the time before the internet, he struggled to learn…
My biggest pitfalls at uni have been financial and mental health related, mainting good mental health is important to sustain my practice A reality I continue to face living as an artist is that my mental health continuously stops me from being productive. I have been diagnosed with depression, and my depression has consistently impeded…
One plan I have for a future professional opportunity is to start a bi-monthly sound arts event in Leicester. With Leicester being where I am from, I find it sad to see so many of the local venues shutting down and the arts courses at the universities and colleges being closed. Starting this event is…
One creative endeavour that provides a stream of income is freelance sound design and composition. During the course, as well as doing sound design and composition for my own films, I have done some freelance work for other creatives. I undertook two paid freelance projects during my studies, one was an NHS short promoting cervical…
A lot of my practice incorporates interesting use of effects for sound design. In order to expand my practice and develop another stream of income, I would like to start building guitar pedals. This is a business idea that feels feasible to me, as I have worked with hardware electronics before and have a basic…
In this series of blogs, I will be analysing the realities of living as an artist, describing my future aspirations and how they have been shaped by my time on Sound Arts BA and describing how I will attempt to contextualise my work outside of the Sound Arts BA. In this first blog, I will…
Having conducted research into several relevant works and conducted various experiments, I arranged the work in my room as I would arrange it in a gallery space. I considered the knowledge I had gained from research into technical, aesthetic and conceptual elements when setting the work up, as well as through the idea’s conception. Having…
After my first successful test, I continued experimenting to see what would work. I started by trying the same one-reel method, but getting the tape as taut as possible; however, the tension on the connection of the tape was too much, which led to the tape snapping during testing. I had tried a very loose…
With the content of the letters being so old yet memorialised by its existence on paper, looping the final words on a cassette tape felt appropriate. The typical cassette sound is warbly and noisy, with the cassette becoming obsolete in the 2000s and sounding so distinctive, cassettes now sound old and nostalgic. I think using…
With tape being an obsolete medium as well as possessing a warbly, old sound, it felt like an appropriate medium to work with when trying to present the love letters I found. The letters feel old and were discarded in the charity shop; Tape feels old and has been culturally discarded. This felt like a…