Category: Audiograft 2011 Diary

Applause

February 26th, 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.

This recording features the end of Paul Whitty and Stephen Cornford’s performance of “it pays my way and it corrodes my soul” at Modern Art Oxford during Audiograft 2011 and the applause that followed.

That concludes our Audiograft 2011 Sound Diary; look out in mid-May for the Audiograft 2012 Sound Diary, and at the end of February for the entire Audiograft 2011 archive.

“It pays my way and it corrodes my soul”

February 25th, 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.

This is a recording of Paul Whitty and Stephen Cornford performing “it pays my way and it corrodes my soul” at Modern Art Oxford during Audiograft 2011. You can hear the audience and the acoustics of the space very faintly in the background, underneath the amplified sounds from the performance which filled the room.

James Kelly introducing his set at Modern Art Oxford

February 24th, 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.

Here, James Kelly introduces his set at Modern Art Oxford while the audience settle to a hush and someone puts a glass down.

Rhodri Davies talking about quiet in the “Concept as Score” Concert

February 23rd, 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.

Here we hear Rhodri Davies talking about his experience of quietness and focus amongst the audience the “Concept as Score” Concert in the Holywell Music Room earlier in the festival programme. Rhodri Davies and Max Eastley were preparing for their performance at Modern Art Oxford that evening, and Felicity Ford was interviewing them about that when Davies offered this insight into that Concert (excerpts here here and here). While Davies and Eastley talk, the sounds of the experimental DJ performance – “Sh*T! I can DJ” taking place upstairs at Modern Art Oxford can be heard from the floor above.

“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.