and a few more thoughts that help me think

“It’s scary to be that vulnerable, to say things that are that truthful. It’s much easier to use irony. The striking thing about his work is that he doesn’t,” – Laurie Anderson on Antony

this resonates with something i’ve been thinking a lot about recently. truth and sincerity and idealism.

and it worries me that there’s no tangibility in that in a way that i’m familiar with.  i dont need to draw well. i can just make patterns and lines and be happy with that, while i go on with other things and directions and movements

but i did start off thinking i was going to write about idealism, because Ollie asked a few people to write about their vision for the future and i want to write about idealism, but i realise its not the right word.  it smacks of privilege, perfectibility, idealism has been enlisted by the mainstream as a tool for telling me how i ought to be.  i want to reclaim idealism where each can attain their own perfection free from you know, “things”…

so perhaps its something like what Ollie does, escape into that world of oddities, obscurity, quirkiness as my perfectability and honesty to myself and who i am (little i)

extracts from something that exists only as potential

Sound art, simply is the focus on listening, hearing and perception in art creation.

The potential for experimentation and innovation inherent in sound art provides for a new language of expression

project to develop organically, from raw ideas to collaborative experimentation and strong creative outcomes

experimental instrument

Listening Glass uses the front window of the gallery as a type of sound diaphragm, in which the vibrations from outside sounds are picked up and fed into the instrument system. Sounds processed by the instrument are simulataneously fed back through the glass to the street outside. The incoming sounds also affect the instrument’s visual output, projected onto a screen behind the glass window at night.

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Christen describes the interaction between sound and video ‘… the sonic intensity feeds the ‘pixel cells’ growing on the digital plane, building up to a critical mass appearing as visual white noise. This white noise consists of all frequencies at once, a saturation that is the opposite of emptiness.’

http://www.clatterbox.net.au/instruments/listeningglass

not enough moving

noise/ sound investigations

more of this I think, I’ve started taking my camera everywhere with me, perhaps it will help to

investigate, instigate, inaugurate, initiate

more and more and more of this, and I don’t think I’ve got enough to show for myself…

remedies of this to come soon.

movement two

press play
pick up tape head
touch the wire loops
apply tape head to circuit board
perform
…
press stop

witness girl

one of those things you walk into not knowing what it really is

or who’s doing what

and you only went because this friend said to come

on a whim

whats that word? i think i mean synaesthesia

you’re hearing loud sounds, big fat buzzy sounds that vibrate your guts and tummy. there is control though, a more concerted effort than noise rather orchestrated disharmony.  building, constructed at the same time as its being conceived. and at the same time an uncomfortable feeling realising that the guy flinging hubcaps at the bed frame has a totally calm expression on his face. 

and theres that other guy, with his guitar and a CHISEL. 

it might be 

while the guy with visible signs of something foul coming to pass, sways his broken limb in front of a camera, the hung movement creating sonic pulses bounding against the walls of the room.

then the bed frame guy, he pulls the plug, just like that, and drops it against the concrete floor.