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Phantasmal Spaces, Archetypal Venues in Computer Games – Mathias Fuchs Fuchs refers to the uncanny and phantasmal space of the forest (the environment of my previous project) in Wagner’s opera Siegfried as conjured by “poetic description of sounds, of affective bodily states and shadows of light and darkness. The horror of the forest consists not… Continue reading Books on Games

Rory’s impromtu workshop – Performance as a level field – the diggers performing as a member of the audience, rather than on the stage I feel an affinity to this, i dont enjoy being on the stage we collaborativly moved instruments/sound emitters around the room, and ended with everything in a pile that performed on… Continue reading Workshop with Rory

Graeme Miller is an artist, composer and performance-maker working internationally across a wide range of media from radio to gallery installation and is known for his sited, performative social works. His practice emerged from UK performance of the 1980s as the co-founder of the influential theatre company Impact Theatre Co-operative. While continuing to make his… Continue reading Guest Lecture – Graeme Miller

In this lesson we covered the concepts of our work. I spoke with Tata and we told each other about each of our ideas and then wrote down what we thought each other was trying to communicate, or what the central questions/topics were. Tata seemed to have a good grasp on what I was trying… Continue reading Lesson with Cathy Lane

In february of this year I decided around my birthday thatI was actively going to share things I made online, mostly as an act of desensitisation – I started with the idea that if i make anything ill upload it to soundcloud – im allowed to go back to it and mix it later on… Continue reading ‘my grey leaving’- Releasing, Performing music

This session introduces ways of thinking about sound in the context of social art practice, communities and co-creation. We will work in groups to map any anxieties and hopes we might have about working with communities, and use these maps to guide us through the session. We’ll participate in / listen to / play with… Continue reading Lesson with Hector MacInnes

https://poestories.com/read/manofthecrowd I read the man of the crowd, and then listened a podcast episode on it (somewhat confusingly, The H.P Lovecraft Literary Podcast – EP 330) I found the short story to be very inspiring, and it has set the foundation of my current concept. Im currently intending to create On my walk to LCC… Continue reading The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

Dawn showed us portfolio websites I have a website of my own. Its not great. every now and then i delete it and start it up again. i coded it myself. https://benjaminthorn.art theres a hidden web synth (https://benjaminthorn.art/obscurus) of a project made last year based on obcsurative digital instrument interface design and interaction something I… Continue reading Lesson with Dawn

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,… Continue reading Year 3 – A Recap