Category: Projects

“Sh*t! I Can DJ” with Lisa Busby and James Kelly at Modern Art Oxford

February 22nd, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: , ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

In this recording, “Sh*t! I Can DJ” featuring Lisa Busby and James Kelly can be heard, playing in the café area at Modern Art Oxford during Audiograft 2011. If you listen hard, you can detect the acoustic of the space, the slight clink of plates being moved, and the sounds of someone walking across the floor.

Coats, microphone sounds and “Ceremony” by Mike Blow

February 21st, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: , ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

The low hum in this recording is the sound emitted from 12 speakers, in an installation by Mike Blow entitled “Ceremony“. You can also hear the sound of manmade fabric rustling as Felicity Ford and Mark Stanley walk around the installation space, listening to and looking at the piece; and the sound of an Audio Technica BP4029 picking up even the slightest of hand movements through its pistol grip.

“Observing Density through Standing Waves” by Efthymios Chatziggianis

February 20th, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

Today we hear a work by Efthymios Chatzigiannis entitled “Observing Density through Standing Waves“. In the recording we hear standing waves travelling through shampoo, oil, air and water, as Felicity Ford moves around the room where the work was installed, pointing a microphone in the direction of each of the tubes in which standing waves are moving through different substances.

Mark demonstrating Mike Blow’s “Shower Piece”

February 19th, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

In this recording, we get an insight into the realities of documenting a sound art festival! Mark Stanley is instructed to demonstrate operate Mike Blow’s “Shower Piece” while Felicity Ford records the sounds. You can hear microphone handling and directionality, Mike’s speakers blasting out the recorded sounds of a bathroom shower, and the hum of vending machines in the foyer above the ground floor where “Shower Piece” was installed.

Camera clicks and Diffusion Concert

February 18th, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

In this recording, we hear people taking photographs and chattering during the interval, and the beginning of the second half of the evening’s Electroacoustic Diffusion Concert in the Jacqueline du Pré building in Oxford.

“Listening through walls” with a pint glass

February 17th, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: , ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

In this recording, we listen through a wall using a pint glass, to some ambient, recorded sounds which are playing through small speakers on the other side of that wall.

“Listening through walls”

February 16th, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

Today we hear Shirley Pegna introducing her installation, “Listening through walls”. The recording contains Shirley Pegna and Felicity Ford discussing some of the apparatus involved in this installation, some of the sounds which may be heard through the wall using that apparatus, and the ambient sounds around the Student Union building at Oxford Brookes University. It is difficult to discern which of the audible content is found sound in the environment, and which was deliberately placed there by Pegna.

EBows in pianos

February 15th, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: , , ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

In this recording, we hear Catherine Laws reading from an Alvin Lucier score, and demonstrating how EBows use electromagnetic waves to excite the strings inside a Grand piano. The recording contains the sounds and text of reading from a book, touching piano strings, talking about the use of EBows inside Grand pianos, and using an EBow. You can also hear some very slight traces of handling as the microphone recording the sounds is moved around the piano.

“Many 1-4″ and Oxford Karaoke

February 14th, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

Today’s recording features both the sounds inside the Holywell Music Room and the sounds outside it, during the Concept as Score concert of Audiograft 2011. Stefan Thut’s “Many 1-4″ score is being performed in this recording, and some of the sustained tones which feature in the performers’ realisation of that score can be heard, along with the sounds of people leaving the concert, and a karaoke session taking place in a venue outside the Holywell.

The sounds of paper

February 13th, 2012 · · Audiograft 2011 Diary No comments - Tags: , , ,

As per this post and in anticipation of the forthcoming Audiograft 2012 festival, during each day in February 2011, a recording created during Audiograft 2011 will be played here as a Sound Diary entry. The whole series will act like an album of sonic snapshots from the festival; though without frames, without borders, and filled with the overspilling sounds of the surrounding world.

Today’s recording features the sounds of paper during a performance of Benjamin Patterson’s “Paper Piece” at the Concept as Score concert in the Holywell Music Room. In the recording you can hear different textures of paper being manipulated in the large, resonant acoustics of the building.