Having booked out the performance lab on campus, I was helped by technicians Ecka and Rory. They showed me what equipment was available to use. I then proceeded to create the project setup. I used all available guitar amps and placed the two small amps on top of two bigger ones, spacing each pair roughly…

From Ingrid’s lecture on the 16th, I find one of the most interesting parts mentioned to be our nature of hearing which is binaural and how our minds process sound in a 3D image. I am considering recording a sound experiment and may use this technique if it is available to me. Currently, I have…

In this entry I will be documenting the process of my preparation for my composition for the assignment. Having explored using the guitar for sound design over an afternoon, I have sampled a few tones into my rack mount sampler. Using the tuning on the headstock and harmonic playing techniques, I sampled around nine tones…

My practice is based in developing sound objects and creating sonic collages in a music concrète fashion. I utilise various methods to create the sound objects for the means of the current project. For this part of the process I may use a number of recording technologies and sound sources e.g. samplers, magnetic audio tape,…

Listening to “Music on a long thin wire” by Alvin Lucier has given me the idea to use another material beyond my synthesisers to create tones for the assignment. The theme agreed upon is pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, so I think it would be fitting to amplify tone with a string instrument as…

Psycho-acoustically conjure the sounds read in your mind, line by line. Follow the narrative to build a mental sonic image once fully read through. Edited excerpt of “story of a new name” page 215 as a graphic text score… decked out party laboring softly roar of lambrettas voices jump up crying the evening was bewildering…

In the process of creating my graphic score I drew the shapes, forms and scribbles first and later thought of the sounds that would signify each individual part of the score. The first shape line leads into a growth of many that overlap each other into a halting stop with a after trail of reverb.…

It is Friday morning and I am looking at images of Aztec and South East Asian images of deities. Having been asked to create some sort of sonic response to these images, the initial ideas that pop into my head are using droning chords from a synthesiser that evolve other time. I think it would…