Year 3 – A Recap

Here’s a recap of things I got up to over the past year.

A Forest of Wooden Antenna by Fauwrn

For CCI we had a gallery show called the cci festival where instead of exhibiting something I instead performed a game i made outside of the course.

The performance involved walking around the virtual environment, holding W and moving the mouse around.

max patch embedded into unity as a native audio plugin (using rnbo)

intended as a performance in this case – relation to laptop music performance, ‘lets play’ videos, game as an instrument, play etc.

whats next????

i got some books out from the library.

Salomé Voegelin – Sonic Possible Worlds

Id read a little of Salomé’s work before in second year and this book is probably one of the most relevent ive come across to the topics ive come to myself.

Id been reading on Deleuze’s (and Bergson) virtuality before and kind of came to the similar conclusions.

The Situationist City – Simon Sadler

the book is split into 3 parts, the third being ideas/plans for cities – this could be interesting to create.

create one of these situationist cities

‘a new babylon’

maybe even from virtual environment/sonic détournement?

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2. other ideas…

sound books and objects. i work in the library and want to hide books that make sounds.

3. ‘music’

i have been releasing music for the first time.

I started a soundcloud account in February with the intent to share everything I make. Part if this was to make myself ‘care less’ about what i make in a perfectionist sort of way, i think id been listening to The Pastels and generally more immediate recordings of things. Another reason was that it would help in forming some sort of archive of material outside of my laptop.

the range of things i upload is pretty scattered – there’s ambient tracks, field recordings, guitar-based instrumentals, ‘pop’ songs, demos with singing, covers, tech demos – all filled with plenty of errors and terrible mixing as generally ill make the stuff in a single session of an hour or two.

its made for myself but its also nice knowing other people get something out of some of the stuff.

as an extension of this Ive released some of the more aesthetically cohesive guitar-based ambient tracks on streaming platforms and Bandcamp under the name ‘my grey leaving’

i dont have many listeners as ive not been promoting it through performing, and i dont have much of a presence on social media platforms (or penchant of such)

i make this music using my own max effects and guitar improvisations recorded and then mixed in Ableton. I should be releasing some stuff made over the last month or two soon:

i also performed last year when i snuck into the grad show at lcc as Inaki said they had some extra space to fill. i think it went well, people said kind works and that they liked it which was good but im not really sure how i feel about the actual act of performing.

ill be playing at SOAM (sound arts open mic), an event held at Avalon Cafe on the 29th of October that will likely be guitar based (maybe half loud shoegazey, half quiet ambientish). I asked some friends what theyd like to see and got these results.