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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Sound Arts & Design"”.
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What are the possibilities of the sonic laboratory?
… by my work as a curator working with sonic arts and DIY technology. It considers the historical and contemporary concepts and practices of the sonic laboratory, investigating the origins of laboratory terminology and examining various typologies. From there, it closely considers artists' …
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Trajectories of field recording: Sonic fluxes, fuzzy lines and relational space in practice
This practice-led thesis is centred on using sound as a resource for thinking relational encounters and processes of spatial constitution. Starting with Doreen's Massey's conception of space, which posits that space is constituted via interaction, I examine my own field recording practice, and the …
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Post-atomic Auralities: A practice-based study of sound and atmospheric effects
… research investigates the aural connections of sound, temperature, radioactivity and atmosphere. It is sustained by a central question that asks: What are the connections between sound and the nuclear, and how might novel methodologies for sound arts practice activate these relationships? This …
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Addressing otherness in and through sound arts to establish intimacy and proximity as a form of co-creativity and as critical terms for discourse production
… approach to the critical understanding of sound arts, equipping makers and theorists to account for intimacy and proximity as fundamental elements at work within sound arts, both experientially and as part of meaning-making. The suggestion is that intimacy and proximity enable the …
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The Multiphonic Fens
The Multiphonic Fens is a practice-based, site-specific sonic research project that generates original compositional narratives through the practice and process of field recording in the East Anglian Fens. The field recordings are transformed into unique compositions that reflect the subjective …
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Red Lake / Black Mine: Affective Bodies and Material Complicity in Sound Art Practice
… field recording, electroacoustic composition and sound art. It investigates how material—often considered inert—possesses agency, drawing the body of the artist to other affective bodies (sounds, objects, and actions) that exert influence on the creative process. The key methods include exploring …
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Bible Noise: Hearing Hidden and Silenced Voices through Sound Art Practice in the Reading Aloud of the Bible
My research brings together sound art with the ritual of reading aloud the bible. When the bible is read aloud in worship, it is done by a single voice. I consider this single voice as a mono-voice of hegemony that hides and silences that plurality of voices that are present in scripture, with …
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Mapping Experiences of Inner Sounds
This practice based research expands the sound art discourse by analysing what I have termed ‘inner sounds’ — identifying, defining , and sounds we hear in both our conscious and in unconscious minds, similar to but different from an inner voice. Rarely, if ever, is the way we experience sounds our …
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Vibrating the Web: Sonospheric Studies of Media Infrastructure Ecologies
… and will contribute to the field of sound studies by arguing, and defining a methodology, for listening sonospherically (Oliveros, 2011). Through six original artistic projects researching the presence of media infrastructures, the thesis will argue for the ‘sonospheric investigation’ …
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The Listening Artist: On Listening as an Artistic Practice beyond Sound Art
… that is a distinct practice to that of the sound artist, operating with quite different political, philosophical and aesthetic concerns. b) Sound art’s canon of listening is insufficient for accounting for the range of listening at play in such practice. This study contributes to sound art’s …
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After Silence: Improvised Music, Listening and Environmental Sound
… in a workshop about Improvised Music called ‘sound exploration’, led by the musician, Pascal Battus. By finding new playing techniques and preparing our musical instruments in different ways, we tried to remove our musical habits to discover new sonic materials. However, what I remember most …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
This thesis considers the interconnectedness of sound (the foghorn), weather (fog) and place (the coast) through interrogating the foghorn’s role as a sonic marker along British coastlines, from the end of the 19th century to its decline a century later. Foghorns are the sonic equivalent to the …
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A Queering of Memory, Temporality, Subjectivity: Subversive Methods in Audiovisual Practice
… attends to queer and feminist understandings of sound, memory, voice, temporality and spectrality, specifically in relation to audiovisual art. Through an analysis of artworks and material practices, I identify a range of subversive strategies implemented by artists intent on amplifying the …
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Listening to Museums: Sounds as objects of culture and curatorial care
… of contemporary museums via field recording and sound mapping. Through a critical listening practice, this mapping leads to a central question: can sounds act as objects analogous to physical objects within museum practice – and if so, what is at stake in creating a museum that only exhibits …
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Sonic Perceptual Ecologies: Strategies for sound-based exploration,perception and composition in spaces of transient encounters
… cross-‐disciplinary framework to the field of sound studies. It examines how our inherent capacities as listeners are manifested in transitional urban environments, and the primary role of voice as a vehicle for perception in field recording and soundwalking practices. Using the conceptual …
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The unsound object and intimate space
This research proposes the unsound object and intimate space as new approaches to listening to, writing about and performing creative sound works. The writing and the practical works sketch new territory around these two terms to pluralise sound art histories, with the aim of opening up practical …
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How to DO(O) Things with Sounds: A Performative (Re)User Manual
Contemporary theorising within the field of sound art practice emphasises the pursuit and function of listening as a central tenet in forming understanding and content. This research goes some way to re-balance this bias by shifting the weight of significance from listening to sounding and its …
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Nothing Short of Complete Liberation: The Burroughsian Ideal of Space as Curatorial Strategy in Audial Art
… to an understanding of curatorial strategy and sound art practices by using an inferential approach to curating. The study uses analysis of the theories and tape experiments of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) to explore curatorial problems occurring within sound-related gallery displays of …
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From inputs to outputs: an investigation of process in sound art practice
This practice-based thesis aims to expand sound art discourse by considering process in sound art practice through an exploration of artists’ experiences. There is still relatively little debate about or critical reflection on the location or nature of process in contemporary sound art’s …
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Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields: The Poetics and Politics of Environmental Sound Arts
… critique throughout, I argue environmental sound art has ignored the politics of observer-subject relations and instead engaged place and sound through divisive legacies of conservation and composition. I propose a hybrid conceptual framework from contemporary sound and anthropological …
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