Participatory Sonic Practise

During this lecture I learnt the important role of audience interaction when creating an art piece, it is important to have the audience interaction so that your project can be funded.

Paulo Freire

Students have no knowledge and are filled with knowledge  by their “expert” teachers. Bell Hooks, Teachers and students should  learn together and be critical about the situation they’re in. Critical dialogue, questioning the situation you’re in. Theatre of the oppressed. Image theater. Invisible theater (taking theater outside of the theater, outside), Forum theater (short play eg 10 minutes about oppression, things are driven to worst possible conclusion, using audience to interact and fix the situation), cardboard citizens, 

Claire Barclay –  The Millenium Hut 1999

Amy Culter

Why does it always rain on me? – Travis.

Amy used cut-up technique with a range of pop songs that included phrases about rain and stitched them together with time stretching to create a really interesting body of work.

Pathetic Fallacy, Medley ( the two meanings of Medley is what Amy found interesting), Lullaby, Litany, Aria, Symphony, Repertoire, Echo, Sampling.

Amy is not a classically trained musician and uses a video editing software to almost write her compositions as an essay, she uses another DAW for effects and also pedals.

Vigil for Oro – simplicity of filmmaking, small military island, can navigate with eyes closed because off how small the island is, torch light filming which gave. it an uncanny digital feel, romantic science of isolation, expedition

Black Hole Cinema (RCA) – Astronomy and cinema, observatory, black hole fishing (if energy runs out we can harvest. energy from black holes, Adam brown), black holes are opposite of cinema, peppers ghost,

She used the audience as the soundtrack for a nature documentary, the audience produced unwanted sounds such as coughing, laughing, clearing throat, sneezing and the audience would get annoyed at these sounds as they thought they were interrupting the film when really they were providing the soundtrack. This made me think about how I could sue the audience as part of my piece.

David Toop – Sinister Resonance, The woods show to me answer and the echo rings. “Rain and tears are the same” , rain has became so polluted that the government predicts that none of it is safe.

Amy doesn’t look towards music as inspiration but looks at research in an unconventional way and does research on rain, black holes and nature instead.

Audio Paper Ideas

Emo: Origins, History and How the word got such a bad reputation.

Research:

Emo: how fans defined a subculture / Judith May Fathallah.

This book briefly touches on the history of “emo” music but

The book argues that the fans of emo music created a subculture with the use of sites such as MySpace, Youtube and Tumblr.

Nothing feels good : punk rock, teenagers, and emo / Andy Greenwald.

Script chapter ideas-

masculinity

meme culture

online forums

elitism