Author: Alfie Wall
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Embodied Sound: Feeling the Rave
Rave music often focuses on texture, rhythm, production, or genre. One thing that doesn’t get discussed as much is the physical sensation of sound. In this blogpost I want to discuss this. Different frequencies can be felt in different areas of the body. Sub-bass (under 60 Hz) in feet and chest, Mid-bass (60–200 Hz) in…
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Collaborative Plan
This blogpost is a plan we worked on together in class. We discussed, and decided on the name “Tactile frequencies”. Our plan is to create a piece of audio intended for radio, with the intention of conveying the sensations experienced at raves. I shared Iglooghost’s Lei Disk broadcast with my group members for inspiration. We…
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Iglooghost Lei Disk Case Study
Iglooghost’s Lei Disk is a combination of a fictional archaeological study and a DJ mix. I am a massive fan of his worldbuilding and musical style. My intention is to understand audience reception and gain an understanding of more niche radio art though ananlysis of this piece. Released on July 20, 2021, Iglooghost’s Lei Disk…
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Synthesizing the Rave as a Full-Body Sensory Experience
This blogpost focuses on synthesis techniques I’m considering using for the sound of the project. I started by mapping each sensory element to a sound design technique. Sensation Sound Approach Strobe lights / flickers Rapid amplitude/pan modulation, gated bursts of white noise, glitchy grain delays. Bass through your body Sine/sub synths with slight LFO movement,…
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Sensations experienced at raves (particularly deconstructed club music)
I discussed with my partners for this project and decided to write a bit about examples of sensations which one can experience at raves. Auditory Visual Olfactory Taste Tactile
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“What on Earth is Deconstructed Club?”
Notes on reading https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/deconstructed-club-music-understanding-the-avant-garde-dance-sound What on earth is deconstructed club? “it might just be easier to simply think of it as “dance music that isn’t too bothered about what the house and techno and tech-house lot are up to.” In fact, it might just be easier to simply think of it as “dance music that…
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Global Sonic Cultures plan and reading list
My plan for this assignment is to: Explore Deconstructed club and Its relationship to queer culture, its relationship to neurodivergence, and themes of Transhumanism present in the scene around the music. Reading list: Wang, Jing (2014). ‘Mapping an existential territory: an autoethnography of a sound researcher’. International Review of Qualitative Research, 7 (4), 486–501, doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2014.7.4.486. …
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Sonic Texture
This is a vague outline of things i want to explore with this piece of radiophonic art. Explore Acousmatic Sound – How removing the visual source of a sound can make it feel more textural, ambiguous, and immersive. Maybe linking it to how dark spaces in raves shift perception. Timbre & Spectral Qualities – How…
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Exploring Pierre Schaeffer’s “Étude aux chemins de fer” (Week 3)
Pierre Schaeffer’s “Étude aux chemins de fer” is one of the first examples of a movement called musique concrète, created by manipulating recorded sounds, in this case, trains. This work broke away from traditional music by using industrial noises as raw material. Schaeffer used tape manipulation techniques like cutting, looping, and splicing in the creation…
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Exploring a Quote from On Sonic Art by Trevor Wishart (Week 6)
“The power of the computer to help us construct the internal architecture of sounds from first principles allows us to broaden the concept of composer to include the notion of sonic sculpture.”(Wishart, 1996, p. 8) (My paraphrasing of this quote): Modern technology (particularly computers) enable us to design sounds from their most basic elements. This…