LullabybyLala

• 2012-09-07

  Kelly (2011:14) applies the phrase “we cannot close our ears” to emphasise the significance of the auditory sense in the art world.

  Kelly, C (ed). 2011. Sound (Documents of contemporary art). London/ Massachusetts: Whitechapel and MIT Press.

• 2011-09-04

  …there is no place where I am not simultaneous with the heard.

  — Salome Voegelin, in Listening to Noise and Silence: Toward a Philosophy of Sound Art.

• 2011-07-20

  

  Another photo taken at my most recent audiovisual installation piece, these are some of the revolving reflections that fall on the wall.

• 2011-07-17

  Sound art is not ‘‘sound art’’, it is art that utilises sound to, as Ranciere notes, play the ‘‘game of exchanges and displacements between the world
  of art and the world on non-art’’.

  —  The aesthetic ear: sound art, Jacques Ranciere and the politics of listening, Matthew Mullane

• 2011-07-16

  Boom, there it is. Sound and signification. Sound as social text. Sound as bearer of social memory. Who’s there?

  — (DJ Spooky, Dark Carnival)

• 2011-07-13

  Here is one of the unfinished tracks that I created for my installations, mainly using Acid Music and Nuendo. This track was then edited so that each of the speakers in the installation plays a separate part. 

• 2011-05-23

  Electronic drawing

  Here are a few photos that I took (excuse the bad quality and noise) at the installment of my work before my critique session on the 18th of May 2011. It was a presentation to show the direction that I’m starting to head in, talking/’sounding’ and light-flickering distorted portraiture.

  

  As you can see in the image above, the wires connected to the speaker outline a simple gestural portrait. This is a test for the next project, in which a 6 x 1.5 m distorted self portrait will be made out of wires, speakers and lights that are all connected to a music/sound source. The images that will be used for reference are the face-scans in my previous blog entry.

  

  

  The photos directly above and below show the result of my attempt to actually vacuum pack working speakers in order to add to their ‘fleshy’ personalities. This process proved to be extremely complicated, so instead I used the bags that shrunk around the electronic equipment and refilled them with sunflower oil- giving them an eerie hospital IV drip appearance. The oil spattered and bubbled as the sound was played through it.

  I also added a photo that I took with the lights switched on to show my studio space. The fan and two lights on the left next to the projector are connected to the sound-to-light unit, thus they switch on and off when a viewers speaks or sonically interacts with them. 

  

  

  There is still room for a lot of improvement and experimentation- so hopefully my next blog entry will show this. Enjoy.

• 2011-04-20

  I composed/edited/remixed some music today, can’t wait to hear it in surround sound in my art installation for Thursday. Will upload the audio soon

• 2011-04-05

  Audio Visual Queen (is the TITLE my lecturer gave me)

  

  (just a photo I took of myself and edited a bit)

  I was sent a note on facebook that was headed with the quote ‘I think there are things which you can’t see, unless I photograph them’ - Diane Arbus

  The following is my reply on this note: There are things that can be seen sans the use of our eyes, or without our eyes being the primary recipient of the visual. Also there are many things that one observes but without better scrutiny, without visual ‘dissection’ one will merely ‘observe’, perhaps even ‘see’ but not ‘perceive’. Even now in our overly visually-driven society ‎’seeing’ is more and more, or rather once again reverting back to the more collective act of ‘sensing’. The way we sense or experience combines seeing, hearing and feeling- which is all captured in that which can be said to be ‘embodied’ within the ‘sensor’.

  Obviously the above-mentioned idea corresponds with what I like to think is our constant state of synesthesia. While focusing on the visual-through-auditory conversion it is still pleasant to think that there are many different ways in which energies are transferred into other forms or create new forms.

  • The following are photos showing the various bits of electronic equipment that my boyfriend and I busy ourselves with. I hit the technological salvage jackpot recently and started taking sound systems  etc apart to reassemble parts for my art project.

  

  This images above and below indicate the components of a 4 channel sound-to-light unit that Niël and I are working on, which reacts to sound volume and translates it into corresponding flashing light bulbs (the representation of sound through light). I want to take this experiment a lot further- more on that later.

  

  Here’s a collection of speakers that will be placed in tubes in which they will be submerged in oil. Light projecting through these tubes will illuminate the reaction of the liquid to the sound playing through it:

  

  And this is just to give you an idea of what my work space at home looks like:

  

  I would LOVE to take apart musical instruments and reassemble them in an interesting sort of way. The process of  placing sound-emitting or sound-creating instruments out of their original contexts (by deconstructing and reassembling them) is what truly interests me, for this lends a new conceptual development to their use.