"Homeless Architecture"
Sculptor Gregory Kloehn is helping to house the homeless population by creating functional and mobile homes built from salvaged scrap to give them.
These are outstanding textural examples of sculpture in themselves but to think that they will mean all of the difference for someones comfort,feeling warm, safe and dry in an otherwise torrid existence makes them more than just aesthetically appealing. They are culturally and socially progressive, they elevate community conscious.
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
Bob Dylan
This work has gotten me thinking about spaces and referring back to people using space as compositional tools. This Summer I'm going to look at finding unusual spaces to experiment and gain further understanding of acousmatic work with reference to Pierre Schaeffer and other artists using various size and varying acoustic spaces for recording and performing.
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/05/ive-seen-people-turn-This work regarbage-cool-stuff-absolute-brilliance.html
"The general level of noise in the world around us has dramatically increased. Never has the contrast between the interior and exterior acoustic worlds, or sonic environments, been greater. In his book Acoustic Communication, Traux observes:
{Listening} is a set of sophisticated skills that appear to be deteriorating within the technologized urban environment, both because of noise exposure, which causes hearing loss and physiological stress, and because of the proliferation of low information, highly redundant and basically uninteresting sounds, which do not encourage sensitive listening."
(The Digital Musician, Andrew Hugill- Page 17)
(The Digital Musician, Andrew Hugill- Page 17)
These words illustrate the importance of the work we have been looking at and undertaking recently. Identifying the details of delicate vibrations and sounds around us that we may not have considered before, certainly not to the level we have reached capturing the subtle spaces around us and not so subtle drones of the machinery and technology that we are surrounded by. We've gathered sounds from both the natural and manmade world analysed them, pitched flexed and time stretched them to create whole new sonic scapes and creatures from them. I've been awe-struck with the potential to create the most elaborate set of tracks make up layered scapes with the intricacies of the software we have privy too.
I thoroughly enjoyed learning all of the uses of microphones and portable recorders. My track project opened so much scope whereby I could manipulate my own vocals with multiple pitch settings and plug ins without bounds to formulate the hypnotic sonic spells I've been planning. This Summer I plan to continue what I started and familiarise myself further with Logic X.
These words illustrate the importance of the work we have been looking at and undertaking recently. Identifying the details of delicate vibrations and sounds around us that we may not have considered before, certainly not to the level we have reached capturing the subtle spaces around us and not so subtle drones of the machinery and technology that we are surrounded by. We've gathered sounds from both the natural and manmade world analysed them, pitched flexed and time stretched them to create whole new sonic scapes and creatures from them. I've been awe-struck with the potential to create the most elaborate set of tracks make up layered scapes with the intricacies of the software we have privy too.
I thoroughly enjoyed learning all of the uses of microphones and portable recorders. My track project opened so much scope whereby I could manipulate my own vocals with multiple pitch settings and plug ins without bounds to formulate the hypnotic sonic spells I've been planning. This Summer I plan to continue what I started and familiarise myself further with Logic X.
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