Imperfect Sound Forever

Imperfect Sound Forever

While at work I discovered this article. It's a review a book by Caleb Kelly called "Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction". Interesting review plus some resources for artists who have worked with sound manipulation by exploiting sound recording media!

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All things Music are Great!

The time of year to splurge is hear unfortunately so is the time of year where you make big plans. Travel, getting a car, living in a nice house. With many dreams to realise and an eclectic personality, focus is difficult at the best of times. Money is one of the things I am talking about here, but not just saving for the next blah, that makes me a little ill thinking about it in that way, but on reflection about where I'm at and where I'm going.

That aside for the minute, I just bought a studio condenser microphone for recording among other things vocals. I have been dreaming of consuming and playing that boring game everyone seems to be involved in of owning everything. Stuff I don't really even want. Why do I want things like laptops and so and so mobile phones or an ipod? Well I don't! Its what I do to occupy my obsessive and compulsive mind while working in a mind numbing office environment. The problem is that I get so worked up the idea of having something that I go home thinking about it and yes even dream about this crap.

So from time to time you have to flip the switch over and think about things you care about like music, art, nature and why you continue to work at a place you dislike so strongly. Maybe even think about how the crap you already have is weighing on you and that getting a skip may be a good idea, instead of gratifying my desires with prosthetic pleasure toys.

Without further a-du this is the my new prosthetic pleasure toy -

Link to Ocular Lab Exhibition Essay

This is just a link to a pdf which John Eaton wrote for the exhibition.
Ocular Lab Blab
Enjoy

TRACK a week IS going STRONG!

Yep another Wednesday's end and another track on music.feillafe.com. I was just listening to the new track I uploaded and hit play on another track at the same time. It sounds pretty good, well you can try it for yourself.

Making a Track a week or at least posting a new track every week is an interesting project to undergo. There's no doubt that its a kind of falseness that means a track can go up even if it is not "complete". What is gained by this definitely out weighs the negatives, and that is a connection to the making or process without excessive and sometimes counter productive reflection, and a way of seeing a Narrative or "Greater Picture" of the work; Perspective. This may sound as though I am talking about just myself, but it is not the intention, this format of publishing a track every week is also being done to share with others.

Maybe no one listens to these tracks but it is the act of "putting it out there" that has significance. This topic is something that should be discussed. "Putting it Out There" means so many things to the person revealing themselves to the world. It can be; scary, fun, intimidating, satisfying, and even enlightening. Just having the courage to have a voice, even if you need to do it in the dark like this is, makes the work have meaning and value outside of whatever you think about yourself.

The Hunt for the Perfect Image Gallery Code

Yes that’s right, I am hunting for the holy grail. My previous attempts at web work have revolved around learning one code after another; HTML, CSS, JAVA script, PHP, XML, flash, etc etc etc. Although I am very interested in learning new languages it does not really serve a purpose, which is to make a functioning website in my case. So, keen to have something up and going'ish, I have begun finding templates and apps that I can insert into the site. Of course the languages have helped, I'm no wizard, but it does mean I'm not fighting a battle and can generally find what I want.

So it’s an art website; what should it look like, what is its purpose, who's going to look at it, and who do I want to look at it? These are the standard kind of design questions I find myself asking. It is not purely about indulging myself, although that’s important to. Some of my previous plans have gone in the direction of satisfying my geekier inclinations with a classic "dos" look, (I still think this is a pretty good idea), or maybe it should appeal to my interest in Formalism and Abstraction?

This does bring an interesting point about creating and inspiration. It’s the moment just before you begin to make something and you find yourself thinking, I feel inspired to make something but what? from which pool of interests do I swim?

You can work on many different things, but would it be satisfying? I want to good at what I do. It’s like you've got this decision to make whether you want to be a Jack of all trades or a Master. Well that’s what has always been presented to me. I don’t agree with this but it seems to be how a lot of people think. I could be wrong, but pursuing all of my interests seems to not only be gratifying but the bigger image starts to come into focus. Looking at the connections between my interests and what attracts, me will hopefully enlighten and reveal something about myself. This seems like the thing to master rather than an aspect of me.

What does this all have to do with my search for a pretty image gallery to use in my website? Well this is a discussion about making decisions about what’s important, and the image gallery will be important as it is a website to share what I do, which to a large extent is visual.

Ocular Lab Show

So I guess it's time I actually show some pictures from my Ocular Lab Show I had in November. It was my first solo exhibition, and without further ado:

Music on Feillafe.com

Ok so I will start uploading one track a week onto music.feillafe.com, or at least attempt to. I already have one track on there, its called BrownNoise. You can stream it directly off the website. It is a track I made using my MPC 2000 classic. The way I make the sounds is by using a tone generator to sample "pure" tones like square waves or sign waves. The samples are then manipulated using the MPC to change the resonance and the tone. The moments when two sounds go in and out of phase creating waves, or oscillations create moments of tension and penetrate your awareness. The "movements" are fluid and do not follow a traditional format where there is a transition from one to another. The intention is to create a textured experience.