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.