I recently composed a sound piece centred around a sense of place. This was one of my first compositions that I would say is a piece of sound rather than a piece of music as it is more noise focused than melody focused. I took the sound of chanting and manipulated it along with some…

Pendulum music by Steve Reich is the first piece of sound art I saw. I was shown a video of this piece by my music teacher in my early teens and it made me realise that there was a place for experimental music. It also opened me up to different styles of composition, the score…

-Walk to the edge of the crowd -Pick apart the separate voices -Listen to the crowd as one voice -Step into the centre of the crowd -Repeat steps 2-3

To me, hearing is a constant subconscious happening, it is the brain receiving signals whereas listening is a conscious decision to attempt to give your attention to a sound and to let your thoughts all be surrounding a particular source of sound. Listening encompasses hearing however is more focused and delicate.  Every day I am…

Oswaldo Maciá’s Something Going On Above My Head is set up in a larger room in the tate, it had 16 speakers set up spanning round corners with huge scores painted onto the walls, hearing over 2000 birdsongs from over the world that Oswaldo had collected over five years slightly distorted through the speakers was…

Within the contact mic workshop I soldered together a contact mic. We began by stripping wires and attaching two piezo discs, and then attaching a jack output on the other end. We intended to dip the contact mic into a plasti-dip but ran out of time. I have tested my contact mic using my guitar…

Field Recording- A field recording has the power to capture the sound of a specific place and moment in time. Incorporating field recordings into my practice is important to me as I want to include real world sounds into my work. Real world sounds to me are the most emotive as well as being the…

The sound walk I did in Forest Hill started off to be very disorienting, it was unusual to have my most primary sense stripped away and to lay my trust in my partner. We started in the public park area and made our way past the people and ended up walking the bulk of the…

Reading this article was my first introduction to Chris Watson. Chris’s process has many challenges, as I was reading this article I began to think about how these challenges might translate into his works. Chris’s process when location recording can sometimes involve using long cables in order to record protected species, I find the idea…

I find sound to be the most striking sense, it is unavoidable. The fact that I can choose to open my ears and listen to more shows to me that sound is one of the more delicate senses. “Music is thus ‘condemned to meaning’, whatever the intentions of the creator” (Adorno’s Aesthetics of Music, Max…