Category: Sound Studies & Aural Cultures
-
Primary research in Discord
I wanted to collect primary research from the community around ping music. I posted in the Mumdance Discord, explaining that I was researching ping music as a compositional framework, and asked two questions: what do people think ping music is, and what role did they play in its development? Posting felt intimidating because the server…
-
Boing Music Reflections
Working on a track attempting to follow my ‘boing’ framework taught me that the sound I was aiming for emerges more from experimentation than from a fixed plan. When I manipulated parameters in the synthesiser operator without trying to control the outcome, I started finding timbres that matched the “boing” aesthetic. This was the main…
-
Boing Music
und, called ‘boing music’ The “boing music” framework is elastic sounds in a spacious void, focusig on timbre, exponential rhythms, pitch modulation, and single instances of synthesis playing multiple compositional roles (e.g. drums being composed of one instance of operator, heavily modulated and processed) I’m inspired by Mumdance and Logos’ Ping and Weightless frameworks and…
-
Key insights from the articles
Audio Paper Plan Learn about Audio Papers: https://seismograf.org/fokus/fluid-sounds/audio_paper_manifesto https://intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/934/info Structure/script plan Introduction I am going to explore xyz Pose question Why is discord a necessary space for post genre musicians? What is post genre? A theme that I’ve noticed when digging into the origins of music I’m a fan of (Ping Music, Iglooghost, pc music)…
-
Bits to read and research:
Ping research reading list https://djmag.com/reviews/va-ping-volume-one https://www.mumdance.com https://www.beatportal.com/articles/1053512-different-circles-returns-with-ping-volume-one-a-new-chapter-from-mumdance-and-logos?utm_source=chatgpt.com Post Genre https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/abs/is-the-post-in-postidentity-the-post-in-postgenre/F643B340B1C4769C3096FD8FBE145615 https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1209400/FULLTEXT02.pdf Discord Post genre Social media The fragmentation of the public sphere Post‐Internet Music: Negotiating Queer Identity in the Digital Era (Lucia Clara Affaticati, 2024) https://www.waterandmusic.com/why-so-many-music-producers-are-starting-their-own-discord-communities ‘Of all possible community platforms out there, why Discord?’ ‘The chat service’s real-time communication capabilities offer a much sought-after…
-
Ideas to explore with Sound Studies & Aural Cultures unit
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about cohesive soundscapes, and particularly the concept of sonic worldbuilding. other areas I’m interested in currently are Mark Fell’s ideas around process, and the ‘ping volume one’ compilation released on different circles. In terms of sonic worldbuilding, san paolo artist Yvu who i was introduced to through Kai Winston’s…