Composition only using jackdaws, bells – sacred sounds, water for fluidity of perception
Ethnological field recordings of jackdaws communication
Intraspecies communication vs interspeciws communication ( wordless exchanges )
Glimpses of field recordings amidst ambience
Jackdaws effecting resonators – out of control – organic effect
Kmru- perceptible imperceptible
The piece started with the idea of using very long decaying notes that evolve on each other, constructing different sonic textures. memories and thoughts of times, lived experiences; gradually returning us into the now. Originally released as an audio visual piece for the Issue Project Room, I feel the piece itself also offers an auditory experience on its own sonically. The piece features field recordings from Berlin, Coventry, and Nairobi, distorted guitar sounds and synthesisers. I’ve been exploring ways to use subtle distortion and extreme saturation for most part of 2021 and this piece is a prelude to more pieces that I’m exploring in this direction, finding the balance of extreme tension, noise and sublimality in sounds.
I strongly feel my work strongly provokes active listening—how we listen and its socio-political implications. Listening offers a reflection of the happening. For me, it’s active research that impels an auditory knowing of the human and the non-human.
Struggling to use only material of jackdaws, plus bells of nonsuchh
Theres a common thread in my work that is beginning to become a little clear.
intensity of jackdaws vs intensity of traffic – both intense in different ways – one draws presence – the other blocks it out
jackdaws as the recipient, catalyst of a philosophical conversation into mutual transformation…
the way we receive the world around us affects something internal … mutual transformation
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Drawing on my writings into phenomenology in my dissertation
Both Clipson and Watkins design new ways to experience the familiar. Clipson through masterful use of superimposition and visual abstraction to reimagine landscapes, and Watkins in explorations of tones and resonance often designed for the space he’s performing in.
The more likeable cousin of its better known cousin the carrion crow…
Mics and mic techniques used so far/ experiential mic techs/ dolby atmos course earlier/ 5.1 in headphones instead of multichannel/ soundscape composition – Hildegard Westerkamp – experiential filmmaking Paul Clipson/ super 8/ koyaanisqatsi/ bruce?/ brakhage/ making a timeline
westerkamp
deleuzian becomings…?
The practice of “deep listening” has been extended by Oliveros and her colleagues to focus upon not only the sounds of the external world, but also the more ephemeral sounds of our inner life