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In my understanding, those of us who can hear are hearing all the time. Constantly, our minds are forming a sonic soundscape of our surroundings and our subconscious minds are paying attention to any threats or differences from the norm that may cause harm to our biological systems. At it’s base form, hearing is a…
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One example of sounds that I hear everyday that I consider to contain musical elements would be the sound of car horns and sirens as they move across the roads as the Doppler effect takes place: changing pitch from high to low as it rolls away amongst the traffic. These horn like sounds hold rhythm…
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Due to personal reasons I was unable to stay the entire day however I tried to engage with the exercise as much as possible through use of active listening. Throughout the time is spent on the bridge between the design and media blocks, I found a lot more solace in listening with a perspective of…
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The sonically alive sculpture by Cildo Meireles was ginormous and needed a whole room to contain it’s physical presence and sound alone. Essentially the piece was composed as a tower built from different consumer radios stacked in a somewhat chronological order from date of manufacture, each radio tuned to certain stations, unused frequencies or somewhere…
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“If the coming consciousness of the disjunction between remains the founding act of the theory of the sonic object and of a general science of sound, nonetheless it does not seem that we are able to hear a sound other than as the sound of.” This quote from (Sound by Michel Chion) addresses how sounds are…
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Christine Sun Kim’s piece published by Pop up Magazine interested me very much in that the class audience all heard the same information but each subjectively in their own mind. Essentially subtitles cause us to do this as we have to make up the voice psycho-acoustically ourselves. It was interesting to experience silence whilst being…
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The three keywords I have chosen are:1. Music Concrete2. Spatial3. intention Music Contrete’s focus on the sound itself as a subject matter interests me specifically in making compositions that are abstract and alienating to a conventional music listener in that, as class mate Amani described, music is circular, where as music concrete can be quite…
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Welcome to my blog on sound arts. My name is Robert Burton and I do not know much about the subject of sound arts but I am very interested to learn about the field and different processes used in this area of creative and contemporary work. The closest I have come to this way of…