In thinking about sound and it's application in my practice, I'm in the process of putting together a basic hydrophone for myself - I've wanted to try recording underwater and contact sounds for some time. When it comes to the possibilities of sound in my work, I'm not ruling out found or collaboratively sourced tracks at all, but for now this is an accessible possibility while I look into it :)
In the process of looking for parts, I also came across this SoundCloud page by Grant Finlay who makes regular recordings of New Zealand's ecology. Some of them are wonderfully strange - example to the right...
I also came across the work of Jez Riley French, a sound artist and microphone builder. His work with geophones really interests me - the track below is similar to experiments I've been creating using my own footage and found audio samples. I'd love to be able to explore something site specific in connection to Mount Wellington and the sites where its quarried rocks have ended up; "conversations" between mountains...
From French's blog: "Field recording, in all its forms, has been through incredible creative growth in the last few decades & yet its essential power to engage us in the act & art of listening remains inextricably linked to its subtle simplicity, its ability to make us listen ever more closely to the world in which we move by making us stop for a time."
Interviews with other sound artists can be found here on a website curated by French: Four Questions | located sound
Below: French's recent work in collaboration with his daughter, sound artist Phoebe Riley Law
As mentioned last week, below is a copy of my critique video (an entity for a while) with sound behind it - the accompanying audio is a combination of two free-to-use samples that I found when looking for geological sound effects and tracks. For now, just playing with low resonant noises...
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