Louie Bourne Sound Arts Blog

  • Industrial Sounds

    I have always been drawn to making noise and industrial sounds especially since moving into a city, the industrial sounds in this film reflect the intensity of urban soundscapes as well as time I’ve spent working with industrial equipment as a food production operative. I dislike the way harsh noise is used for long durations…

  • The Glasses

    The ethereal sounds of wine glasses being vibrated have a dark history, referring to the glass armonica “Playing it is damaging to the health, that it excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood”.  To create the sound the wine glasses use the same…

  • The Tate’s Recording Policy

    There is no mention of audio recording at all in this policy, however when me and my classmates visited the Tate with a H5 we were told to walk far away from the building. It doesn’t make sense that somebody would be able to take a picture but they cannot record film or audio, I…

  • Luciano Maggiore

    Luciano has inspired me to take up repetitive daily practices. Each day Luciano draws a stone, he didn’t elaborate very much on how this helped his practice so I can only speculate, but I saw how practices like this could be beneficial for my practice as a whole. To practise small things every day will…

  • Felix Taylor

    Working with communities to show people sound art who perhaps wouldn’t find it on their own is important to me. Felix’s lecture has inspired me to start getting involved in the local community. I would love to volunteer at some art workshops for children. To me it’s important to try and get young people involved…

  • Surveillance & Discomfort

    Ring doorbells are a method of personal security, attached to the front of doors they capture the sounds and visuals of passers by using motion detectors, the police have access to the footage from the ring doorbells. Footage from ring doorbells is often posted online in matters irrelevant to security, the footage is used as…

  • Faceless Voices

    Nobody is anonymous online, however there is a face value of anonymity that comes with having a username and a profile picture that people find different to the anonymity that can be created in the physical world. “von Hirsch has argued that expectations of anonymity, meaning nonidentifiability, protect a sense of dignity and autonomy as…

  • Street Photography

    “The main ethical problem with this form of street photography relates to the subject’s vanity and sense of self. When street photographers produce and publish images without the consent of subjects, they express their own creative freedom at the expense of the subject’s right to editorial control.”  The subject of the picture wants control of…

  • DIY Electronics

    Since the turn of the 20th century, the world of DIY electronics in the west has evolved into a subculture that promotes the sharing of ideas and resources, the sharing of knowledge created relatively accessible means for musicians to develop their own technologies, the creation of these technologies made by musicians has created and helped…

  • Sonic Toys

    When the interface for music becomes collaborative “the interaction between the players becomes equally if not more important than the interaction between player and the interface. The technology recedes as the primary focus and becomes more a catalyst for social interaction.” (Robson, D, PLAY! : Sound Toys For The Non Musical, NIME). The idea of…