Wizard of Oz have analysed the film – and timecoded relevant/interesting parts (in orange book) need to play with sound – look at Audacity (free software) re-reading Wizard of Oz by Salman Rushdie exploring the Sublime and the Domestic door slamming – recurrent in beginning scene sound of final scene is key to research ‘Occupied […]
Meet Dave Griffiths and show him my plans for installation and run through some ideas including having sensors to trigger sound and also ability to record audience and playback buy raspberry pie – comes with Scratch programme – which is easy to use look at magnet or light sensors possibility of setting up microphone from […]
talking about the components which have become part of my work – can travel, adapt, install and play with ‘to construct’ – both myself and others can manipulate them we talked about Elly Thomas – an artist that I have researched before – she gave a talk here. I am going to re-read her paper […]
I had begun to draw onto images of the domestic to envisage how I could install the pipes within a real space Having discussed proposed spaces for degree show with Andy I explored all the available spaces and felt that the bottom of Belmont would suit the install. It still had the look and feel […]
Sketches of pipes Distortion of the sketches Discussing where the work is heading and how this can translate into the degree show. The pipes can travel through other spaces to carry sound along, through and into other spaces. Always pictured myself in The Goldfish Bowl but Belmont with its architecture more in keeping with a […]
Advised before to look at Pigott in my second year and have been advised to look again – so reacquainted myself there is something quite beautiful about the objects that he makes – I enjoy their humour and immediate pleasure investigates fetishism of domestic manias and associated lunacy of consumer choice, social implications of consumption, […]
post assessment feedback put other ideas to side for another time and future ongoing practice I have all the theory, back story and content but am feeling inhibited by it Just ‘play’ with the materials I have focus on pipes and install source loads of pipes – look into sponsorship construct and install materials not […]
all set up for assessment FA301 in my space – most work is accompanied by either sound or film (found on this blog)
having made all the speaker boxes I installed some on the wall and others on the ground I managed to source two speakers with players and placed them inside boxes with the pipes inside the sound was really clear – the sound played with the pipes and distorted it – as you move around […]
– I have finished a group of boxes that can hold both the pipes and the speakers The black plastic I originally used looked far too tacky and too flimsy. I found a rubber matting that works really well at keeping the shape and will also operate as a good sound holder. I tried to […]