Project 5: Clinton and Performance

Before we presented on Friday we were able to get another example of sounds from a musician called Clinton. He used repetition in both sounds and pictures to try and get different experiences and thoughts for the audience when going through the same piece. He also used sounds that reminded him of certain things such as rain or colours. I really enjoyed his work as I could see where it could be used with in certain settings, as if to say it is what might set the mood if I was to walk into a forest or down an alleyway. It also reminded me of this application called 'I-doser'. I-doser is a compression of audio content that apparently gives the listener a simulation of a specific emotion. I don't know how well it works but I do think it is possible to cause an impulse of an emotion from using specific sounds for the brain to recognise and react to.

My group performing live

After our performance I think we played considerably well for the time we had, although we did end up using loops I still didn't know what was to be played with the other performers and tried to pull back when I thought it was necessary for my sounds to be quiet and not cloud our music. I found this weeks trial to be more useful as it gave a more interactive approach as well as an improvisational impact to our work. It was more of a team based project too, allowing us to work together instead of just separately editing. I would like to see these sort of sounds go further than just coming from instruments. It would be interesting if the sort of interactions involved in creating the sounds would be a big part and bring more meaning rather than just strings and jars banging together. Like what these people are developing.

Our performance for circuit bending can be found here.