The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process
camomile - fifty two | four
optic - fifty two | three
lucid insomnia - fifty two | two
fifty two project part 2 - lucid insomnia.
“you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake...nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.” // Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
The second of 52 sound and video pieces each week throughout 2023. Created using lots of worldized sounds from shortwave radio transmissions, process through Eventide Blackhole and Unfiltered Audio Silo.
The video was created using a combination of video shot on a Google Pixel+ phone, video captured from digital visuals in Ableton. These clips were then processed first in Reaper and then in Adobe Premiere.
synaptic distortion - fifty two | one
Creative rules?
A creative 2023
Happy New Year and best wishes to you for 2023.
I have not set resolutions or goals for many years now, instead choosing creative challenges and completion of defined projects. Previously these have included the Piece a day challenge where I composed a piece of music everyday for a year and a half, and more recently 52 Fridays, where I wrote a piece of music and produce an accompanying video every Friday for a year.
Ephemeral Data Streams - New Album December 2022
Re-evaluation and mapping our sense of place and time with the ‘sonic dérive, GPS data and binaural recordings : Sonic mapping of desire paths and places of sonic interest.
The practice of soundwalking and recording has been implemented as a method in artistic composition pedagogy, soundscape awareness interventions, in addition to social science, psychology and acoustics research. This paper explores the author’s phenomenological practice of recording sonic dérives, psychogeographic sound wanderings through urban and rural environments; exploring both consciously and unconsciously environments and paths of sonic interest, leading to the creation and mapping of sonic ‘desire’ paths.