Ambient Sound Recordings.

Violinist, William St, 8/10/12, music, walking

O' Connell St, 8/10/12, cars passing

                                           

Pedestrian Crossing, O'Connell St., 8/10/12, music, beeping of pedestrian lights, talking,

                                            

Arthur's Quay Shopping Centre, coffee shop, 8/10/12, cutlery rattling, dishes

                                             

Arthur's Quay, 8/10/12 cars passing.

          

Arthur's Quay, 8/10/12, cars passing, speaking

         

The Orchard, 8/10/12, speaking, jackhammer

8/10/12, me in the kitchen, cupboards opening and closing, cutlery, walking, Grove

                                                 8/10/12 Mc Donalds, talking
                                                                        

City Sketches

Went into town with Shannon and took a few recordings as well as a few sketches.




 William St. 8/10/12, 13:00


Mc, Donald's, O O'Connell St, 8/10/12, 13:40 Sat in Mc Donald's with Shannon recording some conversations on the sly and drawing, these guys were having a conversation across the room with a group of girls.

Subway, off William St, 8/10/12, 13:55 This man was sitting outside Subway with his daughter, I tried drawing her too but gave up, the scale of her hand was impossible.

William St, 8/10/12, 14:00
A violin player standing in the alcove of one of the empty shops near River Island.

Not I

14:33, Studio 12, 4/10/12

After a tutorial with Mike Fox he suggested I take on Samuel Beckett's "Not I", basically composing of a room set up with 4 tvs showing only mouths visible voicing chosen scripts  with ambient sound being broadcast among it.

5/10/12, grove, 15:49

5/10/12, grove, 15:52

5/10/12, grove, 15:55

Not I - Samuel Beckett, whitelaw

Blow-up sculpture

Blow- Up Sculpture

Nickson, Watergate and Wire

Grove, 3/10/12, 18:45

As I edited my recordings I stumbled onto a recording of Nickson's Watergate tapes, definitely one of the most famous recordings of conversations.

I jotted down some of the conversations and then played around with how to represent them visually.

Here's a section of the Watergate tapes in which Nickson discusses black and Jewish people, be wary though there is some fairly sensitive subject matter in there.

As you can see from my notebook I was looking into using wire to visually represent Nickson's tapes, the idea is to outline just the tops of the letters so the words carry on in a continuous line and are somewhat hidden, much like the disguise of Nickson's tapes.

A piece of wire twisted around cardboard cut out of the words "Uh Uh Whore" taken directly from the transcripts of Nixon's tapes. 

19:02, Grove, 3/10/12

13:43, Grove, 4/10/12

Cow Hall - Finished Recording

This is 'Cow Hall' and its the first edited piece from my recordings of conversations. It's called 'Cow Hall' because the ambient sound you can hear comes from Cow Hall in the college.

                                   

Lack of Gaps

studio 12, 1/10/12, 11:42

Had to reassess my plans for editing my sound clips because the gaps in noise arent long enough to be worth bothering about so I'll concentrate more on layering the sounds.